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all. It is generally supposed that good 

 sport is not to be had in unmitigated 

 sunshine. 



At first it may seem presumptuous on 

 the part of a single fisherman to question 

 the opinions of all these twelve gentlemen ; 

 but it is not really so. If all the twelve 

 were of the same mind, the single fisher- 

 man might be considered arrogant ; but, 

 as each of the twelve is assumed to have 

 a theory differing from every one of the 

 others, the criticism is merely a modest 

 contribution of the thirteenth. 



There is a general objection to almost 

 all of the theories mentioned. It is that 

 they are based on a strangely unscientific 

 understanding of the nature of light. 

 Take the lanes-of-light notion. It was 

 first stated to me on Clatto, a lake in 



Fife, by P P A , a man of 



exceptional intellect whose attainments 

 in sport and in the criticism of literature 

 are a tradition held in respect and affection 

 at the Universities of St. Andrews and 

 Edinburgh. " We shan't get many to-day," 



