

CHAPTER VI 



Boy, come, give me my dubbing bag here 

 presently ; and now, sir, since I find you so honest 

 a man, I will make no scruple to lay open my 

 treasure before you. 



VIAT. Did ever any one see the like ! What 

 a heap of trumpery is here ! Certainly never an 

 angler in Europe has his shop half so well fur- 

 nished as you have. 



Pise. You, perhaps, may think now, that I rake together this 

 trumpery, as you call it, for show only, to the end that such as see it 

 (which are not many I assure you) may think me a great master in 

 the art of angling : but, let me tell you, here are some colours (as 



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