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make more room for their pleasures : and 'tis odds 

 he is as much displeased with the business that 

 keeps him from you, as you are that he comes not. 

 But I am the most pleased with this little house of 

 any thing I ever saw : It stands in a kind of Pen- 

 insula too, with a delicate clear river about it. I 

 dare hardly go in, lest I should not like it so well 

 within as without ; but by your leave I'll try. Why 

 this is better and better, fine lights, finely wain- 

 scoted, and all exceeding neat, with a marble table 

 and all in the middle. 



Pise. Enough, Sir, enough ! I have laid open to 

 you the part where I can worst defend myself ; and 

 now you attack me there ! Come, boy, set two 

 chairs, and whilst I am taking a pipe of tobacco, 

 which is always my breakfast, we will, if you 

 please, talk of some other subject. 



Viat. None fitter, then, Sir, for the time and 

 place, than those instructions you promised. 



Pise. I begin to doubt, by something I discover 

 in you, whether I am able to instruct you, or no : 

 though, if you are really a stranger to our clear 

 northern rivers, I still think I can ; and therefore, 

 since it is yet too early in the morning at this time 

 of the year, to-day being but the seventh of March, 

 to cast a fly upon the water, if you will direct me 

 what kind of fishing for a Trout I shall read you a 

 lecture on, I am willing and ready to obey you. 



Viat. Why, Sir, if you will so far oblige me and 



