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"OYES OYES"
By Ed Zern
Excerpt from How To Catch Fishermen, (1951)
"Fishing the Gunnison River
in Colorado one day, Larry Madison met a justice
of the Supreme Court of a certain western state.
The trout weren't moving, so they sat beside the
stream a while and Larry asked the legalist
how a man gets appointed to a state Supreme
Court bench.
The judge said there were a
number of factors governing such appointments,
but offered one concrete suggestion to aspiring
jurists. He said that while on a lower bench he
had devised a compact little fly-tying kit, with
a small vise which could be clamped onto to
rostrum in such a position that it couldn't be
seen by anyone else in the court. By hunching
over and appearing to concentrate fiercely on the
fine points of the case under argument, the judge
had been able to turn out five or six carefully
tied optic bucktails in the course of a day's
session and still maintain a fairly good grasp
of the proceedings.
Only on a few occasions, the
judge said, did he become so absorbed in cocking
the fan-wings on a dry fly at the proper angle
that he completely lost the thread of the
arguments advanced by the opposing lawyers; in
these cases, the judge said, his verdicts were
considered such models of objectivity,
lucidity and jurisprudential wisdom that they
came to the attention of the governor, who
promptly appointed him to a vacancy in the
highest court of the state."
~ Ed Zern
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