344 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part II. 



THE THIRD DAY. 



CHAPTER X. 

 PlSCATOR. 



Oh, Sir, are you returned ? You have but just 

 prevented me. I was coming to call you. 



Viat. I am glad, then, I have saved you the 

 labour. 



Pise. And how have you sped ? 



Viat. You shall see that, Sir, presently : look 

 you, Sir, here are three * brace of 



louttcountr * Trouts > one of them the biggest but 

 man. one, that ever I killed with a fly in 



my life ; and yet I lost a bigger 

 than that, with my fly to boot ; and here are three 

 Graylings, and one of them longer by some inches 

 than that I took yesterday, and yet I thought that 

 a good one too. 



Pise. Why you have made a pretty good morn- 

 ing's work on't ; and now, Sir, what think you of 

 our River Dove ? 



Viat. I think it to be the best Trout-river in 

 England ; and am so far in love with it, that if it 

 were mine, and that I could keep it to* myself, I 

 would not exchange that water for all the land it 

 runs over, to be totally debarred from it. 



Pise. That compliment to the river, speaks you 



