CHAPTER X 



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Pise. Oh, Sir, are you returned ? you have but just 

 prevented me. I was coming to call you. 



VIAT. I am glad then I have saved you the labour. 



Pise. And how have you sped ? 



VIAT. You shall see that, Sir, presently ; look you, 

 Sir, here are three brace of trouts, one of them the biggest 

 but one that ever I killed with a fly in my life ; and yet 

 I lost a bigger than that, with my fly to boot ; and 

 here are three graylings, and one of them longer by some 

 inches than that I took, yesterday, and yet I thought 

 that a good one too. 



Pise. Why you have made a pretty good morning's 

 work on't ; and now, Sir, what think you of our River 

 Dove? 



VIAT. I think it to be the best trout river in England ; 

 and am so far in love with it, that if it were mine, and 

 that I could keep it to myself, I would not exchange 

 that water for all the land it runs over, to be totally 

 debarred from it. 



Pise. That compliment to the river, speaks you a true 

 lover of the art of angling ; and now, Sir, to make part 

 of amends for sending you so uncivilly out alone this 

 morning, I will myself dress you this dish of fish for 

 your dinner ; walk but into the parlour, you will find 

 one book or other in the window to entertain you the 

 while, and you shall have it presently. 



VIAT. Well, sir, I obey you. 



Pise. Look you, Sir, have I not made haste ? 



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