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numbers with staves, treating them as vermin and putting 

 them into the salt-tub. The colour, quality, and greed 

 of the bull-trout are all against him, yet one cannot but 

 feel sorry for the treatment he receives, for he is a game 

 one. 



Until the bull-trout first visits the sea he retains his 

 pink spots, and I have killed many in this stage weighing 



JAWS, TONGUE, ANU TAILS. 



from I lb. to l^lb., and I am of opinion that the instinct 

 which prompts an early visit to the sea is not so strong 

 in his nature as it is in that of the salmon or sea- 

 trout. 



I have killed fish of 1 lb. weight, strangers to salt 

 water, and have extracted from them a quarter of a pint 

 of coarse worms, some half digested, others but recently 

 swallowed; and, again, I have cut open a fish of this 



