NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



ecchoes of the water ; no rest nor pause, but im- 

 patient till they bite ; no flats nor sharps, but 

 solitary pools and rapid streams ; no beats nor 

 shakes, but strugling and strangling ; and, in 

 short, no close except that of the panier. So 

 that I may properly call his harmony their hal- 

 tering. 



Theoph. Just such success I had ; for art was 

 useless to catch such fish, as careless of their lives, 

 they cast them away. Look here, Arnoldus, I 

 have brought my evidences ; this brace I caught, 

 and this catch'd me. 



Arn. Here's su table diversion, our exercise 

 has equaliz'd the ballance of success : Not an art- 

 ist amongst us barren of sport. 



AquiL Nor the water out of temper ; if it hold 

 so to-morrow, we may flatter ourselves the town's 

 our own. 



Arn. It may be so, if all hits right : What, 

 two Sundays in one week ? Don't you observe 

 it rain already ? However, let us trace these glit- 

 tering sands, to those solitary fields that direct 

 to Dumbarton : We have spent the time to suf- 

 ficient advantage, had there been nothing more in 

 it than initiating Theophilus, whom I perswade 

 myself will consult the art, and manifestly in 

 time approve himself eminent. 



Theoph. Come, gentlemen piscatorians, and 

 vertuosos of the rod, Dumbarton begins to pre- 



