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A Trout That Ate Mice. 
Sundown Hill, Riverside, Connecticut. 
To the Editor : 
I send you the photograph of a large 
brook trout and the contents of his 
stomach when taken — nine field mice. 
The trout was caught by my friend, J. 
E. Barbour, of Paterson, New Jersey, 
in the St. John’s River, Gaspe, Canada. 
June 20, 1921. He also took the photo- 
graph. 
The St. John is one of a number of 
with spruce and balsam, rising from 
the water’s edge. Coming down the 
side of one of these cliffs, an immense 
bald rock, is a considerable waterfall, 
and probably there are others which 1 
did not see. It is probable that the mice 
gorged by the trout had been washed 
down the side of one of these cliffs by 
a shower. Once in the St. John the 
current might carry them miles before 
they could make a landing. 
I happen to know that mice are good 
THE TROUT AND THE MICE TAKEN FROM ITS STOMACH. 
rivers that flow out of the Gaspe penin- 
sula into the Bay of Chaleurs. It comes 
down out of the high country with a 
steady, unbroken rush. It is a long 
water hill. You go up it very slowly 
creeping along the shore with two 
husky guides in each canoe shoving 
against the bottom with steel shod 
poles ; coming down it is like a running 
horse under you. There are steep cliff" 
sides, some of them beautifully wooded 
swimmers. I remember catching a 
number of deer mice in a wire trap at 
a camp in the woods. I took them out 
in the canoe to drown them, but losing 
the heart to do it, I let them out near 
shore. They swam well and going 
through the margin of lily pads one of 
them was captured with a great splash, 
probably by a bullfrog. 
Irving Bach eller. 
