BEOWN WATEES 



days of air and sun after oiling, or the 

 risk is run of spontaneous fire. Only 

 the indispensables went with you, for 

 there is no better corrective of the tend- 

 ency to add those things which "may 

 come in handy," than the knowledge 

 that they will travel on your own back, 

 sustained by your own legs. 



Sometimes the lake was found ; some- 

 times the forest kept its secret ; seldom 

 did the fabled waters yield even a three- 

 pound trout; never were the toils re- 

 gretted. Who goes out into the wilder- 

 ness goes not in vain if he see naught but 

 a reed shaken by the wind. Do not the 

 keener disappointments of life flow 

 from attainment rather than failure ? 



No case of a fisherman striking for 

 a shorter day, or objecting to overtime 

 work, is discoverable in labour statis- 

 tics. He knows not the hours, nor con- 

 cerns himself with the devices that 

 measure them. At sunrise he sallies out 

 to fish till breakfast, and suddenly it is 



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