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CHAPTER VI. 



FISHING-AT-THE-TOP continued. Further Directions 

 on FLY-MAKING. Time when the GRAYLING is 

 in season. Rock in PIKEPOOL. 



PlSCATOR-JlJNIOR. 



BOY ! come, give me my dubbing bag here pre- 

 sently ; and now, Sir, since I find you so honest a man* 

 I will make no scruple to lay open my treasure before 

 you. 



Viat. Did ever any one see the like ! what a heap of 

 trumpery is here ! certainly never an angler in Europe 

 has his shop half so well furnished as you have. 



Pise. You, perhaps, may think now, that I rake 

 together this trumpery, as you call it, for shew only, 

 to the end that such as see it, which are not many I 

 assure you, may think me a great master in the art of 

 angling : but let me tell you, here are some colours, 

 as contemptible as they seem here, that are very hard to 

 be got, and scarce any one of them which, if it should 

 be lost, I should not miss, and be concerned about the 

 loss of it too, once in the year. But look you, Sir, 

 amongst all these I will chuse out these two colours 

 only ; of which, this is bear's hair, this darker, no 

 great matter what, but I am sure I have killed a great 

 deal offish with it; and with one or both of these, you 

 shall take Trout or Grayling this very day, notwith- 

 standing all disadvantages,-* or, my art shall fail me. 

 Viat. You promise comfortably ; arid I have a 



feat deal of reason to believe every thing you say : but 

 wish the fly were made that we were at it. 

 Pise. That will not be long in doing. And pray 

 observe, then. You see, first, how I hold my hook ; 

 and, thus, I begin : Look you, here are my first two 

 pr three whips about the bare hook; thus 1 join 



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