HAP. III. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



thing I ever saw : it stands in a kind of peninsula too, 

 with a delicate clear river about it. I dare, hardly, go 

 in, lest I should not like it so well within as without 5 

 but, by your leave, I'll try. Why this is better and 

 better ; fine lights, finely wainscoted ; and all exceed- 

 ing neat; with a marble table, and all, in the 

 middle ! 



Pise. Enough, Sir, enough; I have laid open to 

 you the part where I can worst defend myself; and now 

 you attack me there. Come, boy I set two chairs. And 

 whilst I am taking a pipe of tobacco, which is always 

 my breakfast, we will, if you please, talk of some other 

 subject. 



Viat. None fitter, then, Sir, for the time and place, 

 than those instructions you promised. 



Pise. I begin to doubt, by something I discover in 

 you, whether I am able to instruct you or no : though, 

 if you are really a stranger to our clear northern rivers, 

 I still think I can! and therefore, since it is yet too 

 early in the morning at this time of the year, to-day 

 being but the seventh of March, to cast a fly upon the 

 water, if you will direct me what kind of fishing for a 

 Trout I shall read you a lecture on, I am willing and 

 ready to obey you. 



Viat. Why, Sir, if you will so far oblige me, and 

 that it may not be too troublesome to you, I would 

 entreat you would run through the whole body of it : 

 Arid I will not conceal from you, that I am so far in 

 love with you, your courtesy and pretty Moreland scat, 

 as to resolve to stay with you long enough by inter- 

 vals, for I will not oppress you to Iiear all you can say 

 upon that subject. 



Pise. You cannot oblige me more than by sucU 

 a promise; and therefore, without more ceremony, 

 I will begin to tell you, THAT, my father Walton hav- 

 ing read to you before, it would look like a presump- 

 tion in me, (and, perad venture, would do so, in any 

 other man,) to pretend to give lessons for angling 

 after him, who, I do really believe, understands AS MUCH 

 of it, AT LEAST, as any man in England, did I 

 not pre-acquaint you, that I am not tempted to it by 



