THE WING-FOOTED 



their young found therein. The brook 

 trout, which dwell in apparent harmony 

 with them, go down the decharge to 

 spawn, and at that season absolutely 

 desert the lake, but none of the stranger 

 fish are found among them. Not the 

 slightest evidence of cross-breeding was 

 noted, and this in a water barely a mile 

 long and not half a mile wide. 



The specimen we have been examin- 

 ing was a female. Two or three times a 

 male gave us a vision of a side adorned, 

 as the eye caught it, with a band of vivid 

 scarlet two fingers broad running the 

 whole length of the fish below the lateral 

 line. The only one hooked beat the 

 angler fairly and got away. It is a 

 simple fact of natural history that the 

 gentler sex, whether you have to do with 

 trout, mosquitos, or suffragettes, bite 

 more freely than the males. 



A few of the gauzy-winged May-flies 

 were fluttering through the air, and a 

 f aw of the Malbaie trout were on the 



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