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introduced. Little or nothing has been seen of 

 them, unless some small creatures of a quarter of 

 a pound, extraordinarily silvery, and more often 

 in the air than in the water when hooked, are 

 these children of the remote \^'est. If they grew 

 up, and retained their beaut\- and sprightliness, 

 they would be excellent substitutes for sea-trout. 

 Almost all experiments in stocking lochs ha\-e 

 their perils, except the simple experiment of 

 putting trout where there were no trout before. 

 This can do no harm, and thc\- ma}- increase in 

 weight, let us hope not in wisdom, like the 

 curiously hea\y and sh\- fish mentioned in the 

 beginning of this paper. 



