10? FLY-FISHINO FOR TROUT 



kind is the best teaching to make it. And then, an 

 ingenious angler may walk by the river, and mark 

 what flies fall on the water that day, and catch one of 

 them, if he bees the trout leap at a fly of that kind ; so 

 and then, having always hooks ready hung with 

 him, and having a bag also always with him, with the 

 necessary materials to make the body of the fly, and 

 to make the fly's head, trying to make a fly, though 

 he miss at first, yet shall he at last hit it better, even 

 to such a perfection as none can well teach him. And, 

 if he hit to make his fly right, and have the luck to 

 hit also where there is store of trouts, a dark day, 

 and a right wind, he will catch such store of them as 

 will encourage him to grow more and more in love *o 

 with the art of fly-making. 



Ven. But, my loving master, if any wind will not 

 serve, then I wish I were in Lapland, to buy a good 

 wind of one of the honest witches that sell so many 

 winds there, and so cheap. 



Pise. Marry, scholar ! but I would not be there ; 

 nor indeed from under this tree. For look how it 

 begins to rain ! and by the clouds, if I mistake not, 

 we shall presently have a smoking shower : and there- 

 fore sit close ; this sycamore-tree will shelter us. so 

 And I will tell you, as they shall come into my mind, 

 more observations of fly-fishing for trout. But, first, 

 for the wind : you are to take notice that, of the 

 winds, the south wind is said to be the best. One 

 observes that, ' when the wind is south, it blows your 

 bait into a fish's mouth.' Next to that, the west 

 wind is believed to be the best ; and, having told you 

 that the east wind is the worst, I need not tell you 

 which wind is the best in the third degree. And yet, 



