If the wind is in the east with a blue hazy atmosphere it
seems to affect the fish in some unaccountable way, and while
it lasts a rise can rarely be got out of them. I have noticed
this hundreds of times, often when the water was in splendid
fishing order, and the river full of new run fish, but whatever
quarter the wind blows from there is always a chance while the
fly is in the water, and to insure success the angler must
make up his mind to have many blank days. He must never tire
of throwing his fly, and never be put out by failure.--H.
CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, “Fishing.”
(2343)
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Mutsuhito, Emperor of Japan, is the author of the following quatrain:
Amatari ni
Kubomishi noki no
Ishi mite mo
Kataki waza tote
Omoi sute me ya?
See, how the tiny rain-drops from the eaves
Hollow the stones beneath, with constant drip,
Then why should we abandon well-formed plans
Simply, forsooth, because we find them hard?
(2344)
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It is the men who stick to it that secure the sweets of fortune.
“I never was in New Hampshire but once,” said Mr. Lincoln,
“and that was in the fall of the year--a cold, rough day, and
a high wind was blowing. Just outside the city I noticed a
big bull-thistle, and on this thistle was a bumblebee trying
to extract honey from the blossom. The wind blew the thistle
every which way, but the bumblebee stuck. I have come to the
conclusion that persistency is characteristic of everything
in New Hampshire, whether men or bumblebees.” (Text.)--_The
Youth’s Companion._
(2345)
See RESOLUTENESS.