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Pise. A good day to you, Sir; I see you will always 

 be stirring before me. 



VIAT. Why, to tell you the truth, I am so allured 

 with the sport I had yesterday, that I long to be at the 

 river again ; and when I heard the wind sing in my 

 chamber window, could forbear no longer, but leap out 

 of bed, and had just made an end of dressing myself 

 as you came in. 



Pise. Well, I am both glad you are so ready for the 

 day, and that the day is so fit for you ; and look you, 

 I have made you three or four flies this morning ; this 

 silver-twist hackle, this bear's dun, this light brown, and 

 this dark brown, any of which I dare say will do ; but 

 you may try them all, and see which does best ; only 

 I must ask your pardon that I cannot wait upon you 

 this morning, a little business being fallen out, that 

 for two or three hours will deprive me of your company : 

 but I'll come and call you home to dinner, and my man 

 shall attend you. 



VIAT. Oh, Sir, mind your affairs by all means. Do 

 but lend me a little of your skill to these fine flies, and, 

 unless it have forsaken me since yesterday, I shall find 

 luck of my own, I hope, to do something. 



Pise. The best instruction I can give you, is, that 

 seeing the wind curls the water, and blows the right way, 

 you would now angle up the still deep to-day ; for 

 betwixt the rocks where the streams are, you will find 



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