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I think him so good a fish, as to be little inferior to 

 the best Trout that ever I tasted in my life. 



Viat. Here's another skip-jack ; and I have raised 

 five or six more at least whilst you were speaking : 

 Well, go thy way little Dove! thou art the finest 

 river that ever I saw, and the fullest of fish. In- 

 deed, Sir, I like it so well, that I am afraid you will 

 be troubled with me once a-year, so long as we 

 two live. 



Pise. I am afraid I shall not, Sir : but were you 

 once here a May or a June, if good sport would 

 tempt you, I should then expect you would some- 

 times see me ; for you would then say it were a fine 

 river indeed, if you had once seen the sport at the 

 height. 



Viat. Which I will do, if I live, and that you 

 please to give me leave. There was one ; and there 

 another. 



Pise. And all this in a strange river, and with a 

 fly of your own making ! Why what a dangerous 

 man are you ! 



Viat. I, Sir, but who taught me ? and as Damatas 

 says by his man Dorus, so you may say by me : 



If my man such praises have, 



What then have I, that taught the knave ? 



But what have we got here ? A rock springing up 

 in the middle of the river ! this is one of the oddest 

 sights that ever I saw. 



