46 Life and Love. 



characteristics of the creature from which it was 

 derived. 



It is a subject of never-ending wonder that 

 within each of these tiny reproductive cells he 

 hidden all the peculiarities of the parent from 

 which it came. 



In a trout egg, or a trout sperm-cell, is contained 

 trouthood. Form, size, spots, habits, all are in 

 some mysterious way impressed upon these atoms 

 budded off from the body of the parent. 



And the mystery is overwhelming when we re- 

 flect that not only can the tiny reproductive cell 

 transmit the peculiarities of the creature from 

 which it came, but also those of ancestors many 

 generations removed. 



