But we go and _sit_ there. It is
a good place to _sit_, and, after all, what else can you
do in the present state of the law?
So it was there that we arranged the party.
The thing somehow seemed to fall into the mood of each
of us. Jones said he had been hoping that some of the
boys would get up a fishing party. It was apparently the
one kind of pleasure that he really cared for. For myself
I was delighted to get in with a crowd of regular fishermen
like these four, especially as I hadn't been out fishing
for nearly ten years, though fishing is a thing I am
passionately fond of. I know no pleasure in life like
the sensation of getting a four-pound bass on the hook
and hauling him up to the top of the water, to weigh him.
But, as I say, I hadn't been out for ten years. Oh, yes,
I live right beside the water every summer, and yes,
certainly--I am saying so--I am passionately fond of
fishing, but still somehow I hadn't been _out_. Every
fisherman knows just how that happens. The years have a
way of slipping by. Yet I must say I was surprised to
find that so keen a sport as Jones hadn't been out--so
it presently appeared--for eight years. I had imagined
he practically lived on the water.
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