Reasoning, Right and Wrong 



planation of the apparent mystery; for 

 it was a mystery that I could not get a 

 rise. I had been entirely right about 

 its being a splendid trout pool, and the 

 other men had been wrong, and I had 

 thought that my position was good. 

 But this thought was possibly an error 

 fatal to success. There is little doubt 

 that if it had been good, easy going 

 across the stream at the lower end of 

 the pool I should naturally at first 

 have taken a position near the right 

 bank and below the trout; but to 

 have gotten over to the proper place 

 from which to cast would have meant 

 a considerable walk down-stream, fol- 

 lowed by wading over difficult places 

 up-stream. 



Whether or not I should have been 

 more successful in this other position, 

 the incident illustrates the great im- 

 portance of taking very particular 



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