102 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



CHAPTER IX. 



PiscATOR. A good day to you, Sir ; I see you will always be 

 stirring before me. 



ViAT. Why, to tell you the truth, I am so allured with the 

 sport I had yesterday, that I long to be at the river again ; and 

 when I heard the wind sing in my chamber-window, could for- 

 bear no longer, but leap out of bed, and had just made an end of 

 dressing myself as you came in. 



Pisc. Well, I am both glad you are so ready for the day, and 

 that the day is so fit for you : and look you, I have made you 

 three or four flies this morning ; this silver-twist hackle, this 

 bear's dun, this light brown, and this dark brown, any of which 

 I dare say will do ; but you may try them all, and see which 

 does best : only I must ask your pardon that I cannot wait upon 

 you this morning, a little business being fallen out, that for two 

 or three hours will deprive me of your company ; but I'll come 

 and call you home to dinner, and my man shall attend you. 



ViAT. Oh, Sir, mind your affairs by all means : do but lend 

 me a little of your skill to these fine flies ; and, unless it have 

 forsaken me since yesterday, I shall find luck of my own, I hope, 

 to do something. 



Pisc. The best instruction I can give you is, that, seeing the 

 wind curls the water, and blows the right way, you would now 

 angle up the still deep to-day ; for betwixt the rocks where the 

 streams are, you would find it now too brisk ; and besides, I 

 would have you take fish in both waters. 



ViAT. I'll obey your direction, and so a good morning to you. 

 Come, young man, let you and I walk together. But hark you, 

 Sir, I have not done with you yet ; I expect another lesson for 

 angling at the bottom, in the afternoon. 



Pisc Well, Sir, I'll be ready for you. 



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