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THE SECOND DAY. 

 chapter vii. 



Viator. 



Oome, Sir ! having now well dined, and being 

 again set in your little house, I will now challenge 

 your promise, and entreat you to proceed in your 

 instruction for Fly-fishing : which, that you may be 

 the better encouraged to do, I will assure you that 

 I have not lost, I think, one syllable of what you 

 have told me ; but very well retain all your direc- 

 tions both for the rod, line, and making a fly, and 

 now desire an account of the flies themselves. 



Pise. Why, Sir, I am ready to give it you, and 

 shall have the whole afternoon to do it in, if no 

 body come in to interrupt us : for you must know, 

 besides the unfitness of the day, that the afternoons 

 so early in March, signify very little to angling with 

 a fly ; though with a minnow, or a worm, something 

 might, I confess, be done. 



To begin then where I left off. My Father Walton 

 tells us but of Twelve Artificial-Flies, to Angle with 

 at the top, and gives their names : of which some 

 are common with us here ; and I think I guess at 

 most of them by his description, and I believe they 

 all breed, and are taken in our rivers, though we 

 do not make them either of the same dubbing, or 

 fashion. And it may be in the rivers about London, 



