Here they are fed twice daily, with five pounds of beef's liver pulverised.

They remain in this water-yard from April to autumn, when the gate is raised and they are let out into the river.

And it is a very singular and interesting fact that those only go which have got their sea-coats on them, or have reached the "smolt" character.

The smaller fry remain in the pond until, as it has been said in higher circles of society, their beards are grown, or, in their case, until their scales are grown, to fit them for the rough and tumble of salt-water life.
The growth of the little bull-headed mites, after being turned into the river-pasture, is wonderful--more rapid than that of lambs of the Southdown breed.

The keeper had marked some of them, on letting them out, by clipping the dorsal fin.