THE LIGHT 105 



It is the exception. This will be found 

 out by any one who fishes every day for 

 a month. As I write these words I am 

 in the midst of an even ampler experience. 

 On most days during the latter half of 

 March and the beginning of April sport 

 was good ; after that, for nearly a month, 

 it was on most days poor ; since then, on 

 a few days, there have been signs of a 

 revival. Is not the moral manifest ? 

 The chances are that if I had been 

 on the water only one day, instead of for 

 many days consecutively, it would have 

 been a day of poor results ; and probably 

 that would have been attributed, con- 

 scientiously but without much thought, 

 to the aspect of the weather, in which, 

 as a rule, the quality of the light is the 

 most noticeable phenomenon. 



If the other conditions of the atmo- 

 sphere were taken into account, it would 

 soon be surmised that the light is not as 

 a rule the cause of either good sport or 

 bad sport. It may be a symptom of the 

 cause ; but in itself it is only incidental. 



