294 AN ANGLER AT LARGE 



very convenient aids to literature. For as the part 

 possesses many properties of the whole the finger, 

 for example, of the body, the leaf of the tree, the 

 hay of the haystack, the note of the melody, the 

 drop of the ink, the turf of the lawn, the I have 

 no phonograph so, angling being but a part of 

 life, and golf being a part of life, and commerce 

 and wine-bibbing and the adjusting of averages and 

 hanging head downwards from a trapeze with a 

 colleague in one's teeth and studying the Gorilla 

 language and (really I must get one) and other 

 things being but parts of life, it follows that the 

 incidents of the greater are reflected in those of the 

 less. 



Perhaps I have found the resemblance most 

 marked in this affair of this, my greatest trout. 

 Let me give you a short account of the taking. 

 If you have any humanity at all, you will not 

 deny me this. You need not listen. But I must 

 tell.. See, now. There will be a line of dots 

 presently. That will mean that I have done. 

 Then you can tell me about your largest trout, and 

 the exact number of yards he ran out, and all the 

 rest of it. That will be much more amusing for 

 you. 



It happened in this way. 



The place was Crab Hatch. I have hardly ever 

 come to Crab Hatch without finding something 



