CHAPTER IV. 



WESTERN FISHES. 



THE GRAYLING, 



Thymallus vulgaris (G'uvier), Thymallus vexillifer (Agassiz), 

 Thymallus tricolor of Michigan. 



" A bright particular star." 



Hail ! lively, spotted, silver-sided stranger ! 

 For many years wast thou a ranger 

 O'er pebbly beds in Michigan's bright streams, 

 A subject only of the patient angler's dreams ; 

 But now he fits his rod and casts his fly. 

 And among the brush and grass you lie, 

 A victim caught by treacherous steel, 

 Fit trophy for the sportman's creel. 



NOTHER star has been discovered in the angler's 

 firmament. By firmament is meant the angler's 

 heaven on earth. His paradise while in the 

 flesh, apart from his Christian duties, is by the 

 stream-side, the lake, amid the mountain's cliffs, 

 or on the placid sea. 



No event in our piscatorial world, except the 

 discovery of artificial fish-breeding, has produced such ex- 

 citement as the discovery of this beautiful little fish in the 



