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Fisherman's Luck
Fisherman's Luck
and some other uncertain things
Dr. van Dyke has brought from the brooks and the woods a fresh and genuine note into our literature--a note in which one hears the fall of water, the stir of leaves, and the sound of men moving and speaking. The twelve chapters which make up this book of stories and sketches have a delightful breeziness of spirt and a sincere literary charm.
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Mountains, I have
found a curious tradition that Ascension Day is the luckiest in the
year for fishing. On that morning the district school is apt to he
thinly attended, and you must be on the stream very early if you do
not wish to find wet footprints on the stones ahead of you.
But in fact, all these superstitions about fortunate days are idle and presumptuous. If there were such days in the calendar, a kind and firm Providence would never permit the race of man to discover them. It would rob life of one of its principal attractions, and make fishing altogether too easy to be interesting.
Fisherman's luck is so notorious that it has passed into a proverb. But the fault with that familiar saying is that it is too short and too narrow to cover half the variations of the angler's possible experience. For if his luck should be bad, there is no portion of his anatomy, from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, that may not be thoroughly wet. But if it should be good, he may r
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