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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: determine the hour at which they will rise. This is sport.
As for the little river itself, it has so many beauties that one
does not think of asking whether it has any faults. Constant
fulness, and crystal clearness, and refreshing coolness of living
water, pale green like the jewel that is called aqua marina,
flowing over beds of clean sand and bars of polished gravel, and
dropping in momentary foam from rocky ledges, between banks that
are shaded by groves of fir and ash and poplar, or through dense
thickets of alder and willow, or across meadows of smooth verdure
sloping up to quaint old-world villages--all these are features of
the ideal little river.
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