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THE NATURE BOOK 



A HAUNT OF SAMLETS. 



On their journey they are often assailed diving birds, hke the swift-swimming 



by predatory fish, such as the pike ; and cormorant. Probably not ten per cent, 



upon entering the tidal \\aters they are of these little rovers will ever return to 



exposed to the depredations of many the river of their birth. They perish b}^ 



hungry fish, and flocks of gulls, besides the thousand in the foe-haunted sea. 



A WEIR IN LOW WATER— WHICH IS NO OBSTACLE TO A BOLD SALMON 



