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anything like good fortune, which you can alone 

 have, by-the-by, by following the directions I have 

 laid down, out of fifty eggs you will have at least 

 twenty-five young fish, lovely, bright, go-ahead 

 little fellows, who will recognize you by this time 

 if you have fed them regularly. An aquarium, or 

 a little clear adjacent stream preferably, should 

 now be their destination ; but mind, I do not say it 

 is impossible to keep them much longer in their 

 tank aforesaid. However, you must please your- 

 self. 



Coarser food may be given to your fish as soon 

 as you find they are strong enough and large 

 enough. By the time they are six or seven 

 months old this diet should be regular. Small 

 pieces of fresh meat, tadpoles, flies, the tiny fry of 

 coarse fish, are all food, and will tend to the tam- 

 ing of the trout if you feed yourself. The brook 

 trout is the boldest in this wise. 



I have inferred that salmon can, as well as 

 trout, be hatched and cultured. This is most 

 certainly true, and I know of no prettier fish, 

 till it gets impatient at its twelve months' birth- 

 day with the restraints put upon it. Seaward its 

 instincts impel it ; and though I have grown them 



