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aristocratic gills on the way, it descends to the 
sea and grows large and fat on the animals of the 
ocean. Although a bold biter it is a wary fish, 
and it often requires much skill to capture it. It 
can be caught too with artificial or natural flies, 
minnows, crickets, worms, grasshoppers, grubs, the 
spawn of other fish, or even the eyes or cut pieces 
of other trout. It spawns in the fall, from Septem- 
ber to late in November. It begins to reproduce 
at the age of two years, then having a length of 
about six inches. In spring-time the trout delight 
in rapids and swiftly running water; and in the hot 
months of midsummer they resort to deep, cool, 
and shaded pools. Later, at the approach of the 
spawning season, they gather around the mouths 
of cool, gravelly brooks whither they resort to 
make their beds.} 
The trout are rapidly disappearing from our 
streams through the agency of the manufacturer 
and the summer-boarder. In the words of an ex- 
cellent angler, Rev. Myron W. Reed, — 
“This is the last generation of trout-fishers. The 
children will not be able to find any. Already there are 
well-trodden paths by every stream in Maine, in New 
York, and in Michigan. I know of but one river in North 
America by the side of which you will find no paper collar 
or other evidence of civilization. It is the Nameless River. 
Not that trout will cease to be. They will be hatched by 
machinery and raised in ponds, and fattened on chopped 
liver, and grow flabby and lose their spots. The trout of 
the restaurant will not cease to be. He is no more like 
the trout of the wild river than the fat and songless reed- 
1 Hallock. 
