IN A FISHING COUNTRY 



pursue from youth to old age, promulgated 

 out of the depths of his ancient wisdom so 

 imperative a storm-warning, that none but 

 a few reckless fingeriings dared to set it at 

 naught. 



If memory is to be trusted, Herodotus, 

 in the course of some disparaging remarks 

 about a city of his travels, ascribes to the 

 people of this place the surpassing hebe- 

 tude of not knowing enough to come in out 

 of the rain. Most of us in this superior 

 century recognize rain when it is actually 

 falling upon us, and are wont to defend 

 ourselves against it by such means as lie at 

 hand, but this we esteem a sufficiency of 

 weather-knowledge. 



Civilization has more or less atrophied 

 a sense which informs or controls birds, 

 beasts, insects and fish; the remnant left to 

 us is little regarded, but still introduces an 

 odd disturbing factor into our lives. Where 

 blunders are recorded and tabulated, as in 

 some banking-houses, the graph of error 

 curves upward before and during bad wea- 

 ther. A comprehensive chart of man- 

 kind's mental and physical activities would 

 reveal aberrations explicable only with the 

 aid of meteorology. A new study this, 

 of many utilities, deserving cultivation. 

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