SECOND DAY .J FLIES. i.1 



PHYS. — Anche Io son Pescatore — I too am a 

 fisherman — a triumph. 



HAL. — Now we have finished our fishing, and must 

 return to the light supper of our host. It would be 

 easy now, and between this hour and ten, to take 

 half-a-dozen large fish in this part of the water ; but 

 for the reason I have already stated, it would be 

 improper. 



POIET. — Pray would not tins be a good part of 

 the water for day-fishing ? 



HAL. — Undoubtedly, a skilful angler might take 

 fish here in the day ; but the bank is shaded by trees, 

 there is seldom any sensible wind on the water, and 

 the apparatus and the boat in motion are easily 

 perceived in the daylight ; and the water is so deep, 

 that a great quantity of fly is necessary to call up the 

 fish j and in general there is a larger quantity of fly 

 in hot summer evenings, than even in the brightest 

 sunshine. 



PHYS. — The fly appears to me like a moth that is 

 now on the water. 



HAL. — It is. 



POIET. — What flies come on late in the season 

 here ? 



HAL. — Plies of the same species; some darker, 

 and some with a deeper shade of red ; and there are 

 likewise the true moths, the brown and white, winch, 



