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were just as much subjective as objective. 

 They may have been on the sky and in 

 the air ; but they were also, and I think 

 primarily, within, affecting the outlook. 

 Certain it is that my recollections of that 

 day's weather, which, after all, was normal 

 for the time of the year, would, though 

 general, have been wholly favourable had 

 sport been good. Often the gloomy 

 aspect of the weather is only an emotional 

 illusion. 



If, then, we would be really skilled in 

 the craft of angling, it is necessary that 

 we should be much miore careful in oilr 

 deductions and our inductions than most 

 of us habitually are. These processes of 

 reasoning are apt to become entangled to 

 our confusion. It has been admitted that 

 there may be some truth in the beliefs 

 that much sport is not to be expected 

 when the water is flagrant in the sunshine ; 

 but this admission is not by any means 

 absolute. The beliefs call for explanatory 

 interpretation, which may best be given 

 by stating them in a new way. It is not 



