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THE SECOND DAY. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 PlSCATOR. 



YY hv then, Sir, to begin methodically, as a mas- 

 ter in any art should do, and I will not deny but 

 that I think myself a master in this ; I shall divide 

 Angling for Trout or Grayling, into these three 

 ways : At the Top ; at the Bottom ; and in the 

 Middle. Which three ways, though they are all 

 of them, as I shall hereafter endeavour to make 

 it appear, in some sort common to both those 

 kinds of fish, yet are they not so generally and 

 absolutely so, but that they will necessarily re- 

 quire a distinction ; which, in due place, I will also 

 give you. 



That which we call Angling at the Top, is with a 

 fly : at the Bottom, with a ground-bait : in the 

 Middle, with a minnow, or ground-bait. 



Angling at the Top is of two sorts : with a quick- 

 fly, or with an artificial-fly. 



That we call Angling at the Bottom, is also of 

 two sorts : by the hand, or with a cork or float. 



That wc call Angling in the Middle is also of two 

 sorts : with a minnow for a Trout, or with a ground- 

 bait for a Grayling. 



Of all which several sorts of Angling, I will, if 



