ON A STORM-SWEPT PIKE POOL 251 



twenty-pounder or so every year. To me something 

 over twelve pounds once in a way seems as good 

 fortune as a reasonable man can desire. If I had 

 caught the big one as well my pride would have 

 been too great, so things were doubtless ordered not 

 amiss, and if any other angler repairs my error he 

 shall have my congratulations. 



