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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: gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend
the whole of my life in travelling abroad if I could anywhere
borrow another life to spend afterwards at home."--WILLIAM HAZLITT:
On Going a Journey.
The peculiarity of trout-fishing in the Traun is that one catches
principally grayling. But in this it resembles some other pursuits
which are not without their charm for minds open to the pleasures
of the unexpected--for example, reading George Borrow's The Bible
in Spain with a view to theological information, or going to the
opening night at the Academy of Design with the intention of
looking at pictures.
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