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with that; and I know a Trout taken with a fly of 

 your own making, will please you better than twenty 

 with one of mine. Give me that bag again, sirrah t 

 Look you, Sir, there is a hook, towght, silk, and a 

 feather for the wings ; be doing with those : and I will 

 look you out a dubbing that I think will do. 



Fiat. This is a very little hook. 



Pise. That may serve to inform you, that it is for 

 a very little fly : and you must make your wings ac- 

 cordingly ; for as the case stands, it must be a little 

 fly, and a very little one too, that must do your busi- 

 ness. Well said! believe me, you shift your fingers 

 very handsomely* I doubt I have taken upon me to 

 teach my master. So, here's your dubbing now. 



Viat. This dubbing is very black. 



Pise. It appears so, in hand : but step to the door, 

 and hold it up betwixt your eye and the sun, and it 

 will appear a shining red ; let me tell you, never a 

 man in England can discern the true colour of a dub- 

 bing, any way but that ; and therefore choose always 

 to make your flies on such a bright sun shine day as 

 this, which, also, you may the better do, because it is 

 worth nothing to fish in. Here! put it on; and be 

 sure to make the body of your fly as slender as you 

 can. Very good ! upon my word, you have made a 

 marvellous handsome fly. 



Viat. I am very glad to hear it ; it is the first that 

 ever I made of this kind, in my life. 



Pise. Away, away ! You are a doctor at it ; but I 

 will not commend you too much, lest I make you 

 proud. Come! put it on; and you shall now go 

 downward, to some streams betwixt the rocks, below the 



an angler who cannot do it. There are many who will go to a tackle- 

 shop, and tell the master of it, as Dapper does Subtle, in the Alchemist^ 

 that they ivant ajly ; for which they have a thing put into their hands, that 

 would pose a naturalist to find a resemblance for : though, when particular 

 directions have been given, I have known them excellently made by the 

 persons employed by the fishing-tackle makers in London. But do thou, 

 my honest friend, learn to make thy own flies; and be assured, that in 

 collecting and arranging the materials, and imitating the various shapes 

 and colours of these admirable creatures, there is little less pleasure than 

 eyen in catching fish. 



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