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month, as had been the case with our Corporals. 

 We heard weekly from home, but were always 

 informed that our present experiment had proved 

 a failure. The winter came with its snows, for- 

 ming ice in our pond two and a half feet thick; 

 but our cold trout stream was scarcely ever frozen 

 over to the thickness of half an inch. On the 

 following April, however, we received the agree- 

 able intelligence, that many hundreds of our 

 young Trout had made their appearance, and 

 were swarming in every trout hole in the stream. 

 We had a trout breakfast from our brook, greet- 

 ing us on the day of our return, on the following 

 autumn. The fish were not large, but, for their 

 age, well grown and delicious.' 



Again, we have young fish hatched from the 

 ova of dead fishes, and that too, at least one month 

 prior to their maturity, the eggs being obtained 

 on the last day of August. I desire the reader 

 to bear in mind, that no fishes eggs, can by any 

 possible known means, be impregnated or vitaliz- 

 ed, until they are mature, and this is never the 

 case, until the parent fish are engaged in de- 

 - positing their eggs. 



I am well acquainted with the habits of the 

 brook trout, and have been from my boyhood, 

 and for the last three spawing seasons, have arti- 

 ficially spawned and impregnated the eggs, from 



