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from 6 inches to 2 or 3 feet deep. The water 

 was very clear, and, after filling the ponds, it 

 ran with a gentle murmer from one little pool 

 to the other, until it finally entered into the 

 pond. It was late in summer before the work 

 was completed. A single day ' was only left us 

 in our school vacation, the following day being 

 the first of September, we had to leave for an 

 Academy in a neighboring State. We determined, 

 if possible, to stock our stream with Trout on 

 that day. Our servant had to pass through the 

 woods to the Trout brook, and carried no other 

 vessels but two tin kettles. He was very suc- 

 cessful in taking with a hook, about twenty- 

 large Trout; but he had been too greedy 

 for numbers. The day was warm, and, notwith- 

 standing his having changed the water several 

 times, the Trout were all dead. The females were 

 full of eggs, ready to be deposited, all the true 

 Trout family spawning in autumn instead of the 

 spring. We again resorted to the spawn, and at 

 this time, with more than a faint hope of suc- 

 cess. We separated the eggs and placed them 

 together with the milt, in all the different holes 

 of the newly formed Trout brook, giving strict 

 orders, that the eggs and their young, during 

 our nine months absence, should remain undis- 

 turbed. We expected the eggs to hatch in a 



