The shoal
is hard to find--very hard. Kernin can find it, but it
is doubtful--so I gather--if any other living man can.
The Wisconsin shoal, too, is very difficult to find. Once
you find it, you are all right; but it's hard to find.
Charlie Jones can find it. If you were in Wisconsin right
now he'd take you straight to it, but probably no other
person now alive could reach that shoal. In the same way
Colonel Morse knows of a shoal in Lake Simcoe where he
used to fish years and years ago and which, I understand,
he can still find.
I have mentioned that Kernin is a lawyer, and Jones a
railroad man and Popley a banker. But I needn't have.
Any reader would take it for granted. In any fishing
party there is always a lawyer. You can tell him at sight.
He is the one of the party that has a landing net and a
steel rod in sections with a wheel that is used to wind
the fish to the top of the water.
And there is always a banker. You can tell him by his
good clothes. Popley, in the bank, wears his banking
suit. When he goes fishing he wears his fishing suit. It
is much the better of the two, because his banking suit
has ink marks on it, and his fishing suit has no fish
marks on it.
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