114 FISH HATCHING. 



entrance into their waterj world. One of 

 these trout I thus assisted, it struck me, had 

 a very peculiar appearance, something wrong 

 about the head. I put him in a small bottle, 

 and held him to the light. To my astonish- 

 ment, I found he had pink eyes — ^yes, 

 regular pink eyes, like a white rabbit ; and 

 gentlemen who were with me confirmed 

 my observation. In other respects he was 

 like the other water babies, I was curious to 

 see if he would turn out an albino, for who- 

 ever yet heard of an albino j^s^ .'' Unfortu- 

 nately he soon died. 



But of all clumsy performers commend me 

 to the baby charr. Most of the charr eggs 

 persisted in half hatching, that is, the young- 

 fish protruded his head and great stg,ring 

 eyes out of the egg-shell, and there became 



