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CHAPTER VIII. 



CARE OF YOUNG IN HATCHING-HOUSE. 



THE appearance of the young trout when first 

 emerged from the egg is grotesque and curious in 

 the extreme. A thin, semi-transparent line about 

 three-quarters of an inch in length, one end 

 pointed, the other knotted and furnished with two 

 comparatively enormous eyes widely separated 

 from each other, compose the body of the fish. To 

 the lower portion of this body, extending from the 



FIG. 21. TROUT AT BIRTH. 



throat backward to fully one-half its length, is a 

 huge, vascular, transparent sac covered with a fine 

 net- work of blood-vessels through which the blood 

 maybe seen flowing, all tending from a minute deep 

 crimson red spot, the heart of the little fish. No 

 traces of fins except the pectoral are to be seen ; the 



