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manner. He is then set at liberty, and the water 

 stirred about for a few minutes, when it becomes cloudy, 

 as if milk had been poured in it, but soon regains its 

 former clearness. The eggs are then rinsed with fresh 

 water, and are fit to be put into the trough. 



Indeed, the whole process of hatching the fish is so 

 simple and easy that it may be achieved with a flower- 

 pot and a watering-can, and conducted on a drawing- 

 room table. Anyone can do it, and it is really so 

 elegant and interesting a process that it may possibly 

 become as fashionable as the ferneries and aquaria of 

 the present day. 



Vivified eggs can now be readily procured from 

 many parts of England and some portions of the Con- 

 tinent. For the little establishment already mentioned 

 the eggs of trout have been brought from the Teste and 

 Bourne in Hampshire, from the Colne in Herts, and the 

 Wandle in Surrey. Salmon ova have been obtained 

 from several parts of Ireland, as well as from the Ehine, 

 the char have come from Geneva, and the grayling been 

 taken from several British rivers where this delicate 

 and beautiful fish survives. Eggs can be safely con- 

 veyed, if packed carefully in wet moss and placed in 

 wooden boxes. 



It will always be found advisable to make provision 

 in various parts of the river which is intended to be the 

 future residence of the young fish, not only for the 

 youthful, but their adult state. Several fish, such as 

 trout, pass solitary lives, each choosing some particular 



