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the boulder, regarding the prospect around him with subdued deHght. 

 After making three casts, pulhng out a yard of Hne each time, he 

 waded out of the water as quietly as he waded in. Stepping on shore 

 he said, with becoming equanimity, " difficulties afford opportunities, 

 and, if tackled as such, may be overcome. Now, sir, shall we get a fish 

 out of there yet ? " — glancing at me with a smile of wistful 

 interrogation, and shying a huge stone or two slaji into the catcli. 



The exact reply does not come to mind, but it was to the effect 

 that, as he had managed things so thoroughly in agreement with my 

 own views, it would not be long before he put a fly over the tail, and 

 then he remarked : " How incredible it seemed that, in salmon fishing, 

 as in every other field of sport, people in general were so averse from 

 basing their line of action on principles of any sort or kind. Of 

 course, as we see here," he added, " events may so shape themselves 

 that an immediate change of policy becomes imperative ; nor do I 

 deny that any study which appeals exclusively to tlie imagination, is 

 wont sometimes to lead the best living judge into delusion." 



" just so," we both nodded ; and I ventured an opinion thnt, all 

 forms of philosophy must begin from some standpoint, wliile b)- way 

 of further approval, 1 observed that experience liad slowly but surely 

 revealed the incontestable fact that certain flies preserved their 

 beneficial effect under the same circumstances and conditions as those 

 under which they previously succeeded. 



" There he is, sir, keep your waders on," interposed Charles, who 

 was immediately commissioned to remount " llmt very same fly." 



A fish had actually crept up into the same little catch already. 

 In less time than it takes to say what happened, a salmon scampered 

 up stream with the hook in its jaw, jumped, and away it went none 



