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authority, that there are actually and positively in 

 some of its pools and stickles genuine unadulterated 

 real live trout. I know as a fact, however, that there 

 are fresh-water mussels, for these I have fished up 



Fig. S"* — Cuckoo-Pint (Aram Maculatum). 



with my little dredging-net, and safely domesticated 

 in the bell-glass aquarium. In the fields around there 

 are ferns, and marsh-marigolds, and rushes, and roast- 

 beef plants. And beside the water's edge there are 



