The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-07-16

ana peep down, you will observe the tiny infant
struggling to get free by splitting open the egg.
FIRST 20 get out into the water is the tail which
ways helplessly about until the bulky head is en-
tireiy free from the shell in which it has been con-
fined all winter
AS yet, the infant is more like tadpole than
hsi much too weak to search for food. So 1t IS
mat nature provides a wonderful means of self
feeding by placing its breast a round saca or
yolk of the egg. For a few weeks the young infant
lies helpessly on it's side in the pebbg sand-"bot
tie-ted" so to speak, gaining blood and strength
lil the yolk-sac is empty. During that time the
body grows more shapely, the large round eyes
seem 10 shrink. and the infant begins TO realize
1t is time to leave the dark sandy bed of the brook
ana get some practice with tail and fins in swim
ming the ripping waters for it needs to he Wig
orous and well prepared to enter an independent
career In a little while 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 come drifting down along the rface
The first taste of natural food seems queer him
but after several trials he likes ii So well as To
gobble every small creature in sight His growth
Is so rapid. that, at two inches long, he becomes
aware that he is desirable tit-bit for the many
enemies that surround him who are bent upon his
destruction In addition to his adroltness in the
capture of fooG-he must use skillful cunning 10
evade capture.
We find the schoolboy trout taking lessons
from Dame Nature and his instinct as guides
along the dangerous pitfalls of life; after many
narrow escapes and adventures he attained the
goal of his desire. He is now grown shapely In
FORM true Samo fontinalis, 1.-THE and graceful in
movement-very different from the infants abnor-
NAL head on 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
brookside shadows, nearby, where the uodding
violets are hanging over the waters edge He has
become shy indeed, prefers to get away from
sunlight and lie under the protecting roots of
trees-or beneath a shelving rock from whence
ba dashes upwards after the wing-cocked insects
Eat float along like miniature yachts on the sur
face of the stream His school hours are not linn
tted his time is fully occupied both night and day
for two purposes evadng his enemies and taking
In all the food available. He Is now fully aware
of the dangerous rod pole carried by the sharp
eyed wicked boy that creeps through the bushes
well supplied with luscious worms to tempt him.
A delicious morsel Is that wiggng worm so rare
ly seen In the ripping water of the brook He
has tried more than once to nip those worms from
the curved barb that seems to be fashioned Just
right to slide down his guet along with the worms
Once he did manage to gobble one; In a second
he found himself yanked out Of his watery abode,
but fortune was kind to let him flop back to the
water. 1t was squeak and he made a
vow to take no more chances In the presence of