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THE AUTHOR MERGETH INTO A DRAMATIC READING; AND TRANSPORTING 

 HIMSELF INTO A PLEASANT SPOT, THERE MEETETH HIS FRILND HERHERT, 

 WHOM .HE INSTRUCTETH IN SUNDRY MATTERS. 



SCENE. The Road at Trefriew, between Conway and 

 Llanrwst, North Wales. 



Personages. THEOPHILUS AND HERBERT. 



Theoph.^-An I well met ! We are at last to- 

 gether. Welcome, most welcome, Herbert, to 

 Wales and all its rich sources of the fisherman's 

 delight. 



Herb. Thanks, my most worthy Piscator ! 

 How pleased I am to see you once again : so long 

 e'er I expected the light of your countenance to 

 shine upon me ! Were you determined in this meet- 

 ing to bring back the reminiscence of our colloquy 

 two years since, as we journeyed together through 

 this very country ? Be it so ; you have succeeded. 

 Here it was, I remember, that for the first time 

 you implanted in my " untutored" mind, the 

 seeds of that taste which neither success nor dis- 

 appointment in the attempt you promise to assist 



