had been a disappointing morning! The dawn came, cloudy: and cold, with a stiff gusty breeze from the east which ripped across the surface of the water and tugged the big lotus leaves until they showed their silver grey undersides. We had boped for a warm still morning, with a heavy dew on the grass, when the big carp family feed freely. Every other morning of the week had seemed ideal, but this holiday morning, of course, proved the fickleness of that Jads Fortune, who finds @ perverted. joy in providing the wrong "kind of weather for working men's hel days all the world over.
Not even the reptiles would bite. Reptiles" is a generic term used to describe those creatures which Seep the float alive without meaning business! Shrimps, for instance, which in most ponds are a perfect pest! They seem to come ut from some lurking place under the banks and seize the bait; the, jumping backwards, retire towards the bank again, This brings the float jerking slowly towards.the fisherman, and provides a very'annoying situation to deal with, the slack line being difficult to pick up, with the consequent danger of a tangle or "hank," and the shrim in most cases dropping the bait Nevertheed in this manner.
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