very convenient aids to literature. For as the part possesses many properties of the whole—the finger, for example, of the body, the leaf of the tree, the hay of the haystack, the note of the melody, the drop of the ink, the turf of the lawn, the—I have no phonograph—so, angling being but a part of life, and golf being a part of life, and commerce and wine-bibbing and the adjusting of averages and hanging head downwards from a trapeze with a colleague in one's teeth and studying the Gorilla language and—(really I must get one)—and other things being but parts of life, it follows that the incidents of the greater are reflected in those of the less.
Perhaps I have found the resemblance most marked in this affair of this, my greatest trout. Let me give you a short account of the taking. If you have any humanity at all, you will not deny me this. You need not listen. But I must tell. See, now. There will be a line of dots presently. That will mean that I have done. Then you can tell me about your largest trout, and the exact number of yards he ran out, and all the rest of it. That will be much more amusing for you.
It happened in this way.
The place was Crab Hatch. I have hardly ever come to Crab Hatch without finding something
