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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: on smaller hooks.
And another thing is certain: in many places (described in the
ancient volumes) where fish were once abundant, they are now like
the shipwrecked sailors in Vergil his Aeneid,--
"rari nantes in gurgite vasto."
The floods themselves are also disappearing. Mr. Edmund Clarence
Stedman was telling me, the other day, of the trout-brook that used
to run through the Connecticut village when he nourished a poet's
youth. He went back to visit the stream a few years since, and it
was gone, literally vanished from the face of earth, stolen to make
a watersupply for the town, and used for such base purposes as the
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