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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: certain places where the fish liked to stay. For example, we
always looked for one at the lower corner of a big rock, very close
to it, where he could poise himself easily on the edge of the
strong downward stream. Another likely place was a straight run of
water, swift, but not too swift, with a sunken stone in the middle.
The ouananiche does not like crooked, twisting water. An even
current is far more comfortable, for then he discovers just how
much effort is needed to balance against it, and keeps up the
movement mechanically, as if he were half asleep. But his
favourite place is under one of the floating islands of thick foam
that gather in the corners below the falls. The matted flakes give
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