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captured even witli tlie flj, but not readily. In the St. 

 Lawrence Eiver it feeSs mostly on the eel-fly, so long as 

 that lasts, choosing, I believe, the dead ones ; and ia 

 July I have found them filled with that fly. They never 

 attain the size of the larger black bass, although they 

 are taken of over three pounds, but are a brave, vora- 

 cious fishj and excellent at table. 



