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caught, to our great surprise, some twenty or 
thirty, weighing one with another nearly or quite 
a pound each. 
We were altogether at a loss to understand 
what could have led to their attaining this unusual 
size, until we found that about that number, which 
had been taken out of another pond, and after- 
wards for some time incarcerated in a tank in the 
stable-yard, had been turned in there. The change 
from the short commons on which they had been 
kept in the tank, to the more liberal fare furnished 
by their new quarters, added to the fact that the 
pond, from being of comparatively recent construc- 
tion, afforded an extra supply of food, had doubt- 
less been the simple causes to which this increase 
in their growth was attributable. 
Besides these Roach and a quantity of others 
of the ordinary size, we also caught the same day 
as many, I think, as eight or ten carp, weighing 
perhaps three to five pounds each, some eels, and 
(unintentionally) two or three Trout, (part of a lot 
which had been recently introduced,) so that that 
morning’s work is impressed on my memory as 
altogether about the most productive bit of pond- 
fishing that I ever had. 
The Trout, which it was hoped might have 
