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Viat. I think you have such command here over 

 the fishes, that you can raise them by your word, 

 as they say conjurors can do spirits, and afterward 

 make them do what you bid them ; for here's a 

 Trout has taken my fly ; I had rather have lost a 

 crown. What luck's this ! he was a lovely fish, 

 and turned up a side like a salmon ! 



Pise. O Sir, this is a war where you sometimes 

 win, and must sometimes expect to lose. Never 

 concern yourself for the loss of your fly ; for ten 

 to one I teach you to make a better. Who's that 

 calls ? 



Servant. Sir, will it please you to come to dinner ? 



Pise. We come. You hear, Sir, we are called : 

 and now take your choice, whether you will climb 

 this steep hill before you, from the top of which 

 you will go directly into the house, or back again 

 over these stepping-stones, and about by the bridge. 



Viat. Nay, sure the nearest way is best ; at 

 least my stomach tells me so : and I am now so 

 well acquainted with your rocks, that I fear them 

 not. 



Pise. Come, then, follow me : and so soon as we 

 have dined, we will down again to the little house, 

 where I will begin at the place I left off about fly- 

 fishing, and read you another lecture ; for I have 

 a great deal more to say upon that subject. 



Viat. The more the better ; I could never 

 have met with a more obliging master, my first 



