Will the Night Come?
It is true enough that the Government has given the impression lately of weariness and dither, and it is paying for it in all those psepho- logical projections which show it knocked from onkel 'But Ministers in private are much more buoyant than circumstances allow them to seem in 'public, and talk as if there was a great deal up the sleeve. Perhaps one, particularly hard- pressed, was already thinking with foreboding of the next term when he told the story of the fanatical fisherman who died and was met in the next place by an obliging and agreeable ghillie who led the way to a fine trout stream. At his first cast he hooked a two-pounder, played and killed it. At his next cast he 'got another. At his third, likewise. And so on. Eventually he said: 'When will this rise end'?' and got the reply: `Never.' But when will the fish stop taking?' he asked. 'Never.' And when will the night come?' Never!"Hell!' said the fisherman. 'Right you are, sir,' said the ghillie.
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