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to circumstances. Since the salmon are sent into places 
where there is no food for them to eat, nature kindly 
takes away their ability to eat and also their desire to eat. 
If it were not for this wonderful adaptation of nature 
it seems probable that the salmon, retaining their appeti- 
tes, would become frantic with the ravenings of hunger, 
and abandoning the mission on which they were sent 
would, regardless of everything else, race back to the 
ocean to satisfy their hunger on the well-filled stores of 
food that they undoubtedly well remember leaving. 
Then, alas for their posterity. There would never be 
any 
The most grateful minded man that I ever heard of 
was one who, after he had lost every earthly possession, 
even his last crust of bread, thanked the Lord that he 
had not lost hisappetite. It seemsto mea subject both 
to ourselves and to the salmon of sincere gratitude that 
the fish do lose their appetites when they start on their 
mission through foodless streams to reproduce their 
species. 
It looks now as if it were pretty well settled that 
salmon do not feed in fresh water, but when the inquis- 
itors thought they had it all settled about the revolution 
of the earth by making Galileo retract his statement 
that the earth moved, the famous astronomer as he was 
being led away, was heard to murmur under his breath, 
‘“It does move,” and now that it seems to be all settled 
so nicely about salmon not feeding in fresh water, I 
imagine I hear more than one veteran salmon hanger 
say, “They do feed in fresh water.” 1 admit ieee 
would be the last one to deny it, for not only do I 
know of enough instances of salmon being caught 
in fresh water with food in their stomachs, to make it 
folly to «deny it, but I have seen the food im inem 
stomachs myself. Last July in particular (July, 1893), 
I examined the stomach of a salmon caught in the 
McCloud River about six weeks before spawning 
season, which had in it four salmon eggs, and the newly 
