When fishing for drummer off the rocks with a sidecast reel, have the drag set at about 50 per cent of the breaking strain to start with.

Like a lot of young journalism school graduates then and now, I had come to see political journalism as a lesser form of the craft, populated mostly by the effete and the unindustrious, while the real reporters were out there braving crack corners and foreign wars.

The adjoining figure represents an under-shot wheel in floody water, or when the river is high, and the water up to its shaft.

[…] on the plane, I had taken to Jimmie also because of his seeming unpremeditation in talking to me in the first place.