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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887. Excerpt: ... that sometimes you can do it, sometimes you cannot, however much you try to pull yourself together. How do you account for it that an ordinary non-professional can one day play a better game of billiards than usual, and another day cannot hit a ball for the life of him P Analyzed it is the state of the non-professional's intestinal canal that has affected his eye, and he can't get the better of it do what he will on those days. Even the professional is not altogether superior to such subtle influences of matter over mind, but he has minimized them by such constant practice that he has approximated to the precision of an unthinking machine, and without much effort of mind effects, almost mechanically, what has become an easy matter-of-course to him. And so it is in this fishing. N, of whom mention is made above, fished so frequently for these fish that he was practically a professional, and the precision with which he struck his fish was marvellous, whereas all the rest of us vary day by day in our success in striking. I don't say that the remedy is an antibilious pill before fishing, but I do warn you, that the proper strike is not "as easy as lying." If these are the difficulties of one who knows when he 'ought to strike, the difficulties in accomplishing what you know is right and wish to do, how much worse is the position of those who have but hazy notions of when they ought to strike, or have not the light rod and sensitive float necessary to aid them in accomplishing the refinement of skill. One of such told me that if he caught one fish in two hundred bites it was all he could do. And yet he sticks to it. Poor fellow, I shall not be happy till I have taken him in hand and made a man of him. These are typical Labeo bites, and it took us years to find...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235661067
- ISBN 13 9781235661068
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages60
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