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accept your offer, and must therefore beg your par- 

 don : I could otherwise, I confess, be glad to wait 

 upon you, if upon no other account but to talk 

 of Mr. Izaak Walton, and to receive those instruc- 

 tions you say you are able to give me for the de- 

 ceiving a Trout ; in which art I will not deny, but 

 that I have an ambition to be one of the greatest 

 deceivers : though I cannot forbear freely to tell 

 you, that I think it hard to say much more than 

 has been read to me upon that subject. 



Pise. Well, Sir, I grant that too ; but you must 

 know that the variety of rivers require different 

 ways of Angling : however, you shall have the best 

 rules I am able to give, and I will tell you nothing 

 I have not made myself as certain of, as any man 

 can be in thirty years experience, for so long I have 

 been a dabler in that art ; and that, if you please to 

 stay a few days, you shall in a very great measure 

 see made good to you. But of that hereafter : and 

 now, Sir, if I am not mistaken, I have half over- 

 come you ; and that I may wholly conquer that 

 modesty of your's, I will take upon me to be so 

 familiar as to say, you must accept my invitation ; 

 which, that you may the more easily be persuaded 

 to do, I will tell you that my house stands upon the 

 margin of one of the finest rivers for Trouts and 

 Grayling in England : that I have lately built a little 

 Fishing-house upon it, dedicated to Anglers, over 

 the door of which, you will see the two first letters 



