Fisherman's Luck, And Some Other Uncertain Things;
Fisherman's Luck, And Some Other Uncertain Things;
Van Dyke Henry
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Give me a story withplenty of danger and wholesome fighting in it, --"The Three Musketeers, "or "Treasure Island, " or "The Afghan's Knife. " Intricate studies ofsocial dilemmas and tales of mild philandering seem bloodless andinsipid. The trout in the Tarn of the Elk are large, undoubtedly, but they arealso few in number and shy in disposition. Either some of the peasantshave been fishing over them with the deadly "otter, " or else theybelong to that variety of the trout family known as TRUTTA... DAMNOSA, --thespecies which you can see but cannot take. We watched these aggravatingfish playing on the surface at sunset; we saw them dart beneath our boatin the early morning; but not until a driving snowstorm set in, aboutnoon of the second day, did we succeed in persuading any of them to takethe fly. Then they rose, for a couple of hours, with amiable perversity. I caught five, weighing between two and four pounds each, and stoppedbecause my hands were so numb that I could cast no longer. Now for a long tramp over the hills and home.
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