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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: the pool, the water slides down into a furious rapid, and dashes
straight through an impassable gorge half a mile to the sea. The
pool is full of salmon, leaping merrily in their delight at coming
into their native stream. The air is full of black-flies, rejoicing
in the warmth of the July sun. On a slippery point of rock, below
the fall, are two anglers, tempting the fish and enduring the flies.
Behind them is an old HABITANT raising a mighty column of smoke.
Through the cloudy pillar which keeps back the Egyptian host, you
see the waving of a long rod. A silver-gray fly with a barbed tail
darts out across the pool, swings around with the current, well
under water, and slowly works past the big rock in the centre, just
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