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offered me as fair as 1 could wish. I'll go and 

 observe your directions. 



Look you, master, what I have done, that which 

 joys my heart, caught just such another Chub as 

 yours was. 



PlSCATOR. Marry, and I am glad of it: I am 

 like to have a towardly scholar of you. I now see, 

 that with advice and practice, you will make an 

 Angler in a short time. Have but a love to it ; 

 and Pll warrant you. 



VENATOR. But, master ! what if I could not 

 have found a grasshopper? 



PlSCATOR. Then I may tell you, That a black 

 snail, with his belly slit, to show his white, or a 

 piece of soft cheese, will usually do as well. Nay, 

 sometimes a worm, or any kind of fly, as the ant- 

 fly, the flesh-fly, or wall-fly ; or the dor or beetle, 

 which you may find under cow-dung; or a bob, 

 which you will find in the same place, and in time 

 will be a beetle ; it is a short white worm, like to 

 and bigger than a gentle ; or a cod-worm ; or a 

 case-worm ; any of these will do very well to fish 

 in such a manner. 



And after this manner you may catch a Trout 

 in a hot evening : when, as you walk by a brook, 

 and shall see or hear him leap at flies, then, if you 

 get a grasshopper, put it on your hook, with your 

 line about two yards long ; standing behind a bush 

 or tree where his hole is : and make your bait stir 

 up and down on the top of the water. You may, 

 if you stand close, be sure of a bite, but not sure to 

 catch him, for he is not a leather-mouthed fish. 

 And after this manner you may fish for him with 

 almost any kind of live fly, but especially with a 

 grasshopper. 



VENATOR. But before you go further, I pray, good 

 master, what mean you by a leather-mouthed fish ? 



