THE WING-FOOTED 



deal of work for biologists before the 

 species and sub-species already men- 

 tioned are sorted out and placed in their 

 proper relation with arcturus and stag- 

 nalis. To attempt this is far beyond the 

 writer's abilities, nor would the reader 

 have patience with minute descriptions 

 of gill-rakers, opercles, and preopercles. 

 For the present purpose it suffices to say 

 that we have to do with a new game fish 

 hitherto only found in the far north, 

 and brought here, as the song runs 

 "How, you nor I nor nobody knows." 

 Other discoveries of these fish in 

 neighbouring waters adapted for them 

 would be by no means surprising. The 

 lake we are all too slowly approaching, 

 though it lies within a few yards of a 

 highway in constant use for over fifty 

 years, has always been regarded as bar- 

 ren of fish, but it may be explained by 

 the fact that these creatures only reveal 

 themselves for a few days every year, at 

 a time when not many fishermen venture 

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