The Colorado statesman., 1924-07-05

enough to be there the right time
and peep down, you will observe the tiny infant
struggling to get free by splitting open the egg
First 40 get out into the water is the tail which
wags helplessly about until the bulky head is
drely free from the shell in which it has been con-
dned NIL winter
AS yet, the infant is like tadpole than a
hsh' much too weak to search for food So 1t is
that nature provides n wonderful of self
Feeding by placing its breast n round sac,
yolk of the egg For a few weeks the young infant
lies helpessly on Its side in the pebby sand-"bot
te-fed" so to speak, gaining blood and strength
till the yolk-snc is empty. During that time the
body grows more shapey, the large round eyes
seem TO shrink, and the infant begins to realize
II is time to leave the dark sandy bed of the brook
and get some practice with tail and fins in swim
ming the ripping waters for it needs to be Wig
orous and well prepared to enter an independent
career. In n little while we the infant search
Ing round about sticks and stones after bottom
creepers-then, more bold, goes swimming with
head up upstream after some of the plump little
larvae that drifting down along the surface
The first taste of natural food queer to him.
but after several trials he likes ii well as to
gobble every small creature in sight His growth
Is rapid, that at two inches long, he becomes
aware that he is desirable tit-blt for the many
enemies that surround him who are bent upon his
destruction. In addition TO his adroitness In the
capture of food-he must use skillfu cunning to
eynde capture.
I'VE find the schoolboy trout taking lessons
from Dame Nature and his instinct as guides
along the dangerous pitfalls OF lire; after many
narrow escapes and adventures he attained the
goal of his desire. He Is grown shapely in
FORM true Salmo fontinals, 1.-THE and graceful in
movement-very different from the infants abnor-
NAL head n small body. He still wears the
dark bars of youth across his sides. which already
show the lovely red and blue spots and the cream
colored fins edged in bright orange. His great
round baby eyes appear smaller. though grown
keen to avert danger, for he no longer haunts the
brooksde shadows, nearby, where the noddng
hanging the waters edge. has
xow become shy indeed. prefers to get away from
sunlight and lie under the protecting roots of
Tees-or beneath n shelving rock from whence
he dushes upwards after the wing-cocked insects
mat font along like miniature yachts the
Ynce of the stream. His school hours not linn
ted his time is fully occupied both night and day
for two purposes-evading his enemies, and taking
IN all the food available He Is fully aware
bf the dangerous rod pole carried by the sharp
eyed wicked boy that creeps through the bushes
we'll supplied with luscious worms TO tempt him.
A delicious morsel is that wiggling worm
ly seen in the ripping water of the brook He
has tried more than once to nip those worms from
tbe curved barb that seems to be fashioned just
right to slide down his gulet along with the
Once he did manage to gobble one; In a second
he found himself yanked out of his watery abode
hut fortune was kind to let him flop back to the
water 1t was narrow squeak and he made a
VOW TO take no more chances In the presence Of