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Trout, in lochs which have become accustomed 

 to feeding on minnows, arc apt to disdain fly 

 altogether. Of course there are lochs in which 

 good trout coexist with minnows and with pike, 

 but these inmates arc too dangerous to be intro- 

 duced. The introduction, too, of Loch Leven 



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trout is often disappointing. Sometimes they 

 escape down the burn into the river in floods ; 

 sometimes, perhaps for lack of proper food and 

 sufficient, they dwindle terribly in size, and be- 

 come no better than 'brownies.' In St. Mary's 

 Loch, in Selkirkshire, some Canadian trout were 



