THE TALE OF THE FISHES 



And as his glorious colors fade, 



Deep thoughts crowd rathe and rife, 



For pictured in the lapsing stream 

 Is limned the tale of life. 



How much in common we enjoy 



These pleasures of the rod! 

 They cement friendship here, and lift 



To commerce with our God. 







Since this paper was written, Dr. Kendall has dis- 

 covered in Christine Lake, in the township of Stark, 

 Coos Co., N. H., a beautiful fish form intermediate 

 between the Dublin Pond trout and the brook trout, 

 thus undeniably confirming the author's theory of evo- 

 lution. The Kendall fish represents a more advanced 

 degree of the differential step toward the fontinalis, 

 nearer to it than any other divergent form. The Dub- 

 lin Pond charr is a late divergent, but the new species 

 is still more recent. It is small, rarely attaining a 

 weight of half a pound, but game. Its mackerel shape 

 is more graceful in outline than that of the brook trout. 

 The tail is decidedly forked. The colors emulate 

 those of the Sunapee saibling, the sides being profusely 

 dappled with carmine spots surrounded by bluish aure- 



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