CHAPTER V 



Directions how to Fish for, and how to make for the 'Trout 

 an Artificial Minnow and Flies; with some Merriment. 



ISC. 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 that 

 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 I hope 

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



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