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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: strings of fish, but who rarely, so far as my observation goes, do
anything more than fill their pockets with fingerlings. The
trained angler, who uses the finest tackle, and drops his fly on
the water as accurately as Henry James places a word in a story, is
the man who takes the most and the largest fish in the long run.
Perhaps the fisherman ahead of you is such an one,--a man whom you
have known in town as a lawyer or a doctor, a merchant or a
preacher, going about his business in the hideous respectability of
a high silk hat and a long black coat. How good it is to see him
now in the freedom of a flannel shirt and a broad-brimmed gray felt
with flies stuck around the band.
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