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parted so ! Look you, there was another ! This is 

 an excellent fly ! 



Pise. That fly, I am sure, would kill fish, if the 

 dav were right ; hut they only chew at it, I see, and 

 will not take it. Come, Sir, let us return hack to 

 the Fishing-house ; this still water I see will not do 

 our business to-day. You shall now, if you please, 

 make a fly yourself, and try what you can do in the 

 streams with that ; and I know a Trout taken with 

 a fly of your own making, will please you better 

 than twenty with one of mine. Give me that bag 

 again, Sirrah. Look you, Sir, there is a hook, 

 towght, silk, and a feather for the wings : be do- 

 ing with those, and I will look you out a dubbing, 

 that I think will do. 



Viat. This is a very little hook. 



Pise. That may serve to inform you, that it is for 

 a very little fly, and you must make your wings ac- 

 cordingly ; for as the case stands it must be a little 

 fly, and a very little one too, that must do your 

 business. Well said ! believe me you shift your 

 fingers very handsomely : I doubt I have taken 

 upon me to teach my master. So, here's your 

 dubbing now. 



\ i at. This dubbing is very black. 



Pise. It appears so in hand, but step to the door 

 and hold it up betwixt your eye and the sun, and 

 it will appear a shining red : let me tell you, never 

 a man in England can discern the true colour of a 

 dubbing any way but that ; and therefore choose 



