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THE COMPLETE AXGLER, 



PART II. 



Vial, 



Spoke like a 

 Countryman. 



CHAPTER X. 



Directions how to dress a Trout and Grayling. 



. PlSCATOR-JuNIOR. 



OH ! Sir, are you returned ? you kave but just pre- 

 Tented me. I was coming to call you. 



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



Pise. And how have you sped ? 



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

 Sir! here are three* brace of Trouts, one 

 of them the biggest but one that ever J 

 kill'd 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 

 tfcat a good one too. 



Pise. Why you have made a pretty good morn- 

 ing's work on't ; and now, Sir, what think you of our 

 iiver Dove ? 



Viat. I think it to be the best Trout-river in Eng- 

 land ; and am so far in love with it, that if it were mine, 

 and that I could keep it to myself, I would not ex- 

 change that water, for all the land it runs over, to be 

 totally debarred from it. 



Pise. That compliment to the river, speaks you r* 

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

 part of amends for sending you, so uncivilly, out alone 

 Ibis morning, I will myself dress you this dish of fish s 

 for your dinner : walk but into the parlour, you will 

 fmd one book or other in the window, to entertain you 

 the while : and you shall have it presently. 



Viat. Well, Sir, I obey you. 



Pise. Look you, Sir, have I uot made haste? 



