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FISHERMAN'S
LUCK
AND SOME OTHER UNCERTAIN THINGS
BY
HENRY VAN DYKE
"Now I conclude
that not only in Physicke,
but likewise in
sundry more certaine arts, fortune hath great share in them."
M. DE MONTAIGNE: Divers
Events,
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1913
Copyright, 1899, 1905, by
Charles Scribner's
Sons
Published, October, 1899.
Reprinted, November,
December, 1899; January, February, September,
1900; September, 1901; November, 1902; August,
October, 1903; September, 1904.
______
Walton Edition, limited to
150 copies, November,
1899.
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New Edition from New Plates,
October, 1905;
August, 1908; May, 1909; June, 1910; August,
September, 1911; July, 1913.
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Leather Edition, September,
1911.
DEDICATION
TO MY LADY
GRAYGOWN
HERE
is the basket;
I bring it home to you.
There are no great fish in it.
But perhaps there
may
be
one or two little
ones which will be to
your haste.
And there
are a few shining
pebbles from
the
bed of the
brook, and ferns from
the cool,
green woods,
and wild flowers from the places that you remem-
ber. I would fain console
you, if
I could, for
the hardship of having married an angler:
a man
who relapses into his
mania with
the
return of
every spring, and never sees a
little
river
with-
out wishing to fish in it. But
after
all,
we have
had good times together as we have followed the
stream of life towards the sea.
And
we have
passed through the dark
days
without
losing
heart, because we were comrades.
So
let
this book tell you one thing that is certain.
In all the life of your fisherman
the best piece of luck
is just
YOU.
