chap, v.] THE COMPLETE ANGLER. Ill 



encourage him to grow more and more in love with 

 the art of fly-making. 



Ven. 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. 



Pise. 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 mistake 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 ob- 

 serves, Eccles. xi. 4., 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 su- 

 perstitious : 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 



