THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



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CHAPTER V. 



More Directions how to fish for, and how to make for the Trout an artifi- 

 cial Minnow and Flies — with some Merriment. 



Pisc. Well met, brother Peter : I heard you and a friend would 

 lodge here to-night, and that hath made me to bring my friend to 

 lodge here too. My friend is one that would fain be a brother of 

 the angle ; he hath been an angler but this day, and I have taught 

 him how to catch a chub by dapping with a grasshopper,* and the 

 chub he caught was a lusty one of nineteen inches long. But 

 pray, brother Peter, who is your companion ? 



Peter. Brother Piscator, my friend is an honest countryman, 

 and his name is Coridon, and he is a downright witty companion, 

 that met me here purposely to be pleasant and eat a trout, and I 

 have not yet wetted my line since we met together ; but 1 hope 

 to fit him with a trout for his breakfast, for I'll be early up. 



Pisc. Nay, brother, you shall not stay so long : for, look you, 

 here is a Trout 



• Dapping for trout with the prasshopper, the grass-beetle, the cricket, 

 fee, over a running stream, affords very fine sport, and is the nearest 

 imitation, as it was the original, of fly fishing. Many an " attic minstrel" 

 have I, when a boy, made to seduce the shy, speckled, shining beauties 

 from their haunts ; hut no artificial imitation have I ever succeeded with. 

 Though the very counterfeit of life, the trout will not take them. — 

 Am. Ed. 



