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CHAPTER V. 



MORE DIRECTIONS HOW TO FISH FOR, AND HOW 

 TO MAKE FOR THE TROUT AN ARTIFICIAL MIN- 

 NOW AND FLIES ; WITH SOME MERRIMENT. 



pISCATOR. Well met, brother Peter! I heard 

 you and a friend would lodge here to-night, 

 and that hath made me to bring my friend to 

 lodge here too. My friend is one that would fain 

 be a brother of the angle : he hath been an angler 

 but this day, and I have taught him how to catch a 

 chub by daping l with a grasshopper ; and the 

 chub he caught was a lusty one of nineteen inches 

 long. But pray, brother Peter, who is your 

 companion ? 



Peter. Brother Piscator, my friend is an honest 

 countryman, and his name is Coridon, and he is 

 a downright witty companion, that met me here 

 purposely to be pleasant and eat a trout. And I 

 have not wetted my line since we met together ; 

 but I hope to fit him with a trout for his breakfast, 

 for I '11 be early up. 



1 Dapping, or dibbing, is to drop your bait with a very gen- 

 tle tap or dab on the surface of the water. BROWNE. 



