The Fourth Day 95 



such store of them, as will encourage him to grow 

 more and more in love with the art of fly-making. 



VENATOR. But, my loving master, if any wind 

 will not serve, then I wish I were in Lapland, to 

 buy a good wind of one of the honest witches, that 

 sell so many winds there, and so cheap. 



PlSCATOR. Marry, scholar, but I would not be 

 there, nor indeed from under this tree; for look 

 how it begins to rain, and by the clouds, if I mis- 

 take not, we shall presently have a smoking 

 shower, and therefore sit close ; this sycamore-tree 

 will shelter us : and I will tell you, as they shall 

 come into my mind, more observations of fly-fishing 

 for a Trout. 



But first for the wind : you are to take notice that 

 of the winds the south wind is said to be best 

 One observes, that 



when the wind is south, 

 It blows your bait into a fish's mouth. 



Next to that, the west wind is believed to be the 

 best : and having told you that the east wind is the 

 worst, I need not tell you which wind is the best in 

 the third degree: and yet, as Solomon observes, 

 that "he that considers the wind shall never sow" ; 

 so he that busies his head too much about them, if 

 the weather be not made extreme cold by an east 

 wind, shall be a little superstitious: for as it is 

 observed by some, that " there is no good horse of 

 a bad colour"; so I have observed, that if it be 

 a cloudy day, and not extreme cold, let the wind 

 sit in what corner it will and do its worst, I heed it 

 not. And yet take this for a rule, that I would 

 willingly fish, standing on the lee-shore: and you 

 are to take notice, that the fish lies or swims nearer 

 the bottom, and in deeper water, in winter than in 

 summer; and also nearer the bottom in any cold 

 day, and then gets nearest the lee-side of the water. 



