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pcctation to give a merrior hum to the next tliroAv, and again to 

 the next, until all expectations are fulfilled at once when his 

 wrist tingles to the trout's jerk and swirl and jump. 



"And still that wrist tingles through casts that take no prize, 

 until another capture renews its thrill. Broken leaders, snarled 

 lines, torn garments, bruised limbs, do not spoil his hilarity, 

 which feels the whole day's sjjort in every minute, the whole 

 brook's beauty at every step. 



"And so with life. It is to be lived as a whole. Happiness 

 comes from an energetic sense of its entire significance in every 

 passing phase of it — in mystery, as giving value to knowledge — 

 in failure, as the guage of success — in evil, as the condition of 

 good, which indeed is but evil overcome, and without the evil 

 could not be — and in all alike as strides and casts of the confi- 

 dent soul, whose trout-stream from end to end is God. 



"And if by these the soul gains nought else, it gains immortal 

 health ; fills its creel with secrets of infinite love and wisdom — 

 Avisdom too loving to wish less than man's perfection — love too 

 wise to spare any pain necessary to attain (rodlike end. Luck 

 enough for time or eteruity. Nay, eternal sport in time." 



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