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weakly when we turned in our young fish) 

 Each fish immediately sought out a resting 

 or a hiding place, behind a stone or bit 

 of weed — for be it remarked as a curious 

 fact, that young trout are not gregarious — 

 and there he took up his position as happy as 

 a fish could be. As regards what became 

 afterwards of these very fish, Mr. Ponder 

 writes me thus : — " Among the advantages 

 of early turning into the river must be 

 reckoned that of rapid growth. Some of 

 those which you and I turned in were, after 

 only nine days, found to be three or four 

 times larger than those of same age left behind 

 in the troughs." 



Andrew, the keeper, has also seen several 

 of these young trout on the shallows at a 

 different place. " One of these," he says. 



