CHAPTER II 



FEBRUARY 



Trout-Fishing Not much Scope for Luck The Edinburgh 

 Reviews Theory of Flies Eyesight of Mail and That 

 of the Trout A Case in Point Male and Female 

 Insects Some Particular Fly Always Preferred The 

 Southern School of Anglers Strange Doings in 

 Hampshire An Unfortunate Custom of the Scots 

 The Fruitfulness of Knowledge. 



TROUT-FISHING, in which we shall soon be 

 engaged, is a craft much subtler than 

 salmon - fishing. It affords illustration 

 of Pope's teaching that all chance is 

 "direction which thou canst not see." 

 The poet must have been a fly-fisher. He 

 could never have arrived at such a thought 

 by playing or by watching billiards. That 

 is a pastime in connexion with which 

 there is real need for the word "fluke." 

 To be sure, any erratic shot at billiards, 



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