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now angle up the still deep to-day ; for betwixt the rocks where 

 the streams are, you would find it now too brisk ; and besides, I 

 would have you take fish in both waters. 



VIATOR. I'll obey your direction, and so a good-morning to 

 you. Come, young man, let you and I walk together. But hark 

 you, Sir, I have not done with you yet ; I expect another lesson 

 for angling at the bottom, in the afternoon. 



PlSCATOR. Well, Sir, I'll be ready for you. 



PISCATOR. OH, Sir, are you returned ? you have 

 but just prevented me. I was coming to call you. 



VIATOR. I am glad then I have saved you the labour. 



PISCATOR. And how have you sped ? 



VIATOR. You shall see that, Sir, presently ; look you, Sir, 

 here are three * brace of Trouts, one of them the biggest but 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. 



PISCATOR. Why, you have made a pretty good morning's 

 tvork on't ; and now, Sir, what think you of our river Dove ? 



VIATOR. 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't. 



' PlSCATOR. That compliment to the river, speaks you a true 

 lover of the art of angling. And now, Sir, to make part of amends 

 for sending you so uncivilly out alone this morning, I will myself 

 dress you this dish of fish for your dinner : walk but into the 

 parlour, you will find one book or other, in the window, to entertain 

 you the while and you shall have it presently. 



VIATOR. Well, Sir, I obey you. 



PlSCATOR. Look you, Sir, have I not made haste ? 



VIATOR. Believe me, Sir, that you have ; and it looks so well, 

 I long to be at it. 



PISCATOR. Fall to then : now, Sir, what say you, am I a 

 tolerable cook or no ? 



VIATOR. So good a one that I did never eat so good fish in 

 my life. This fish is infinitely better than any I ever tasted of 

 the kind in my life. 'Tis quite another thing than our Trouts 

 about London. 



PISCATOR. You would say so, if that Trout you eat of were 



* Spoke like a South countryman. 



