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in Europe, has his shop half so well furnished as 

 you have. 



Pise. You, perhaps, may think now that I rake 

 together this trumpery, as you call it, for shew only ; 

 to the end that such as see it, which are not many 

 I assure you, may think me a great master in the 

 art of Angling : but let me tell you here are some 

 colours, as contemptible as they seem here, that 

 are very hard to be got ; and scarce any one of them, 

 which, if it should be lost, I should not miss, and be 

 concerned about the loss of it too, once in the year. 

 But look you, Sir, amongst all these I will choose 

 out these two colours only, of which, this is bear's 

 hair, this darker, no great matter what : but I am 

 sure I have killed a great deal of fish with it ; and 

 with one or both of these, you shall take Trout or 

 Grayling this very day, notwithstanding all disad- 

 vantages, or my art shall fail me. 



Viat. You promise comfortably, and I have a 

 great deal of reason to believe every thing you say : 

 but I wish the fly were made, that we were at it. 



Pise. That will not be long in doing : and pray 

 observe then. You see first how I hold my hook, 

 and thus I begin. Look you, here are my first two 

 or three whips about the bare hook ; thus I join 

 hook and line ; thus I put on my wings ; thus I 

 twirl and lap on my dubbing ; thus I work it up 

 towards the head ; thus I part my wings ; thus I 

 nip my superfluous dubbing from my silk ; thus 

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