THE WAY OF A TROUT WITH A FLY 



When the Wise Man laid it down that there were three 

 things which were too wonderful for him — yea, four which 

 he knew not — he came to the climax with " the way of a 

 man with a maid." Some future Solomon will end with 

 a fifth — the way of a trout with a fly — for it combines the 

 poise of the eagle in the air, the swift certainty of a serpent 

 upon a rock, and the mystery of the way of a ship in the 

 midst of the sea, with the incalculableness of the way of a 

 man with a maid. Our aviators seem to be on their way 

 towards a solution of the way of the eagle in the air. The 

 mystery of the way of a ship in the midst of the sea has 

 yielded all its secrets to the persistence of modern man, 

 but the way of a man with a maid and the way of a trout 

 with a fly remain with us to be a delight and a torment 

 to thousands of generations yet unborn. 



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