THE 



COMPLETE ANGLER; 



OR, THE 



CONTEMPLATIVE MAN 1 * RECREATION. 



PART II. 



CHAPTER L 



Conference between a Country-gentleman proficient 

 in FT,Y-FISHING and a Traveller who becomes his 

 pupil*. 



PISCATOR-JUNIOR, and VIATOR. 



PlSCATOR-J. 



YOU are happily overtaken, Sir: may a man be so 

 bold as to enquire, how far you travel this way ? 



Viator. Yes sure. Sir, very freely ; though it be a 

 question I cannot very well resolve you, as not knowing 

 myself how far it is to Ashborn, where I intend to-night 

 to take up my inn. 



Pise. Why then, Sir, seeing I perceive you to be 



* The Contents to the Chapters of this Second Part, are now first 

 added by the Editor of the seventh edition ; who has also seen it proper 

 to supply the word " Junior" after " Piscator," the first-time that designa- 

 tion of Cotton occurs in each of the following chapters. The time at 

 which thee dialogues are supposed to take place, is the beginning ofAfarctfr 



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