CHAPTER VI 



[Second 2>a] 



Pise. Boy, come, give me my dubbing-bag here pre- 

 sently : and now, Sir, since I find you so honest a man, I 

 will make no scruple to lay open my treasure before you. 



VIAT. Did ever any one see the like ! What a heap 

 of trumpery is here ! Certainly never an angler in Europe 

 has his shop half so well furnished as you have. 



Pise. You, perhaps, may think now, that I rake 

 together this trumpery, as you call it, for show only ; to 

 the end that such as see it, which are not many I assure 

 you, may think me a great master in the art of angling : 

 but, let me tell you, here are some colours, as contemptible 

 as they seem here, that are very hard to be got ; and scarce 

 any one of them which, if it should be lost, I should not 

 miss, and be concerned about the loss of it too, once in 

 the year. But look you, Sir, amongst all these I will 

 choose out these two colours only, of which, this is bear's 

 hair, this darker, no great matter what ; but I am sure 

 I have killed a great deal of fish with it ; and with one 

 or both of these you shall take trout or grayling this 

 very day, notwithstanding all disadvantages, or my art 

 shall fail me. 



VIAT. You promise comfortably, and I have a great 

 deal of reason to believe everything you say ; but I wish 

 the fly were made, that we were at it. 



Pise. That will not be long in doing : and pray 

 observe then. You see first how I hold my hook, and 

 thus I begin. Look you, here are my first two or three 

 whips about the bare hook ; thus I join hook and line ; 



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