Certainly the sun was very hot that day.

The fishers on the island found it so, notwithstanding that they had sought out every one for himself the shadiest, freshest nook that could be found.

Nothing was fresh; and if the trees did hinder the sunshine from falling on some parts of the ground, they kept off none of it from the water; and the glare from that was said to be unendurable.

Even where there was not much glare strictly speaking; people were not particular in their speech that day.

At last they voted that holding lines in the water was of no use; fish could not be expected to leave their cool depths below to seek the sunny regions near the surface of the water; "they would be fools if they did," one of the ladies remarked.