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Show "In anoling aa in all other rU'I"eation3 into whiM IJ:r:citemenl entera, w• have to bfl ;n our guard, .so that WIJ can at any moment ~row a weioht of aelf-control into the acale aoainat miafortuM; and happily we can atudy to tome purpose, both to increase our pleasure in aucces& and to le&a: our diatreu cau•ed by what aoetJ ill. It ia not only in ca&~ of oreal du- :=· how that the angler nud& self-control. He u perpetuallu uponev;:·u•e it to wilhetand anwU eza•peratiom."-Snt EDWARD GREY: Flu-Filhing. THE THRILLING MOMENT EVERY moment of life, I suppose, is more or less of a turning-point. Opportunities are swarming around us all the time, thicker than gnats at sundown. We walk through a cloud of chances, and if we were always conscious of them they would worry us almost to death. But happily our sense of uncertainty is soothed and cushioned by habit, so that we can live comfortably with it. Only now and then, by way of special excitement, it starts up wide awake. We perceive how delicately our fortune is poised and balanced on the pivot of a single incident. We get a peep at the oscillating needle, and, because we have happened to see it tremble, we call our experience a crisis. The meditative angler is not exempt from these sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condeiilse itself into one big chance, and stand out before him 3!) |