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from twelve to one, during which time I 

 have had good sport. Then they have 

 reappeared, and I have done nothing for 

 the rest of the day. For the last twenty 

 years, at any rate, I have had these clouds 

 under very careful observation, and I have 

 never had anything approaching decent 

 sport when they have been visible." 



This baneful cloud, so often Mr. Michel- 

 more's undoing, is, I venture to think, 

 the greatest mystery of all the many 

 puzzling weather influences contributed 

 by correspondents. In a general way, 

 Mr. Dodd, as quoted in the last chapter, 

 prefers bright sunshine to white clouds, 

 but no similar specific accusation is else- 

 where brought against a particular re- 

 curring cloud like that discovered by Mr. 

 Michelmore. Mr. Horace Hutchinson's 

 admission of "bright, white, hummocky 

 clouds in a clear sky " as one of the only 

 two atmospheric conditions fatal to success 

 in trout fishing was referred to on an 

 earlier page. 



