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little bell cord"when~they are hungry. They were 

 taught this latter performance by having bits of food 

 tied to the cord when it was first introduced. 



Wild Trout and Tame. "Somehow the catching of, 

 as it were, stall-fed trout has not the sa^me charm as the 

 fishing for the wild trout. The domestics lack that 

 fierce rush and dash of the wild beauty." John B. 

 Robinson. 



Sight, Hearing, etc., of Trout. "There is no ques- 

 tion ... as to the high development of the senses of 

 sight, taste, and hearing in trout. " Wm. C. Harris. 



Trout at Play. " Many times have I leaned over the 

 sides of my boat in Northern waters, where the trout 

 lay beneath me, and seen the mottled beauties chase 

 each other, and race and leap in rivalry of sport, until 

 their bright sides irradiated the dark stream with 

 glancing light, as if the rays of the sun had taken 

 water and were at their bath. " W. H. H. Murry. 



Trout in Hungary. The streams of Hungary afford 

 excellent angling for trout and grayling. 



Unidentified Trout. M. P. Dunham of Ovando, 

 Montana, a sportsman's guide of many years' experi- 

 ence, writes me: "We have two trout here in Mon- 

 tana that I do not find pictured in The Angler's Guide 

 or any other book I have seen containing the technical 

 portraits of the fishes. One of these trout weighs up 

 to forty-nine pounds and its average weights are twelve 

 pounds to fifteen pounds. The other is a small trout 

 that averages less than one pound in weight, and it 



