8o ANGLING SKETCHES 



introduced. Little or nothing has been seen of 

 them, unless some small creatures of a quarter of 

 a pound, extraordinarily silvery, and more often 

 in the air than in the water when hooked, are 

 these children of the remote West. If they grew 

 up, and retained their beauty and sprightliness, 

 they would be excellent substitutes for sea-trout. 

 Almost all experiments in stocking lochs have 

 their perils, except the simple experiment of 

 putting trout where there were no trout before. 

 This can do no harm, and they may increase in 

 weight, let us hope not in wisdom, like the 

 curiously heavy and shy fish mentioned in the 

 beginning of this paper. 



