CHAPTER VII 



IAT. Come, sir, having now well dined, and being 

 again set in your little house, I will now challenge 

 your promise, and entreat you to proceed in your 

 instruction for fly-fishing ; which that you may 

 be the better encouraged to do, I will assure you 

 that I have not lost, I think, one syllable of what 

 you have told me ; but very well retain all your 

 directions, both for the rod, line, and making a fly ; and now desire 

 an account of the flies themselves. 



Pise. Why, sir, I am ready to give it you, and shall have the 

 whole afternoon to do it in, if nobody come in to interrupt us ; for 

 you must know (besides the unfitness of the day) that the afternoons, 

 so early in March, signify very little for angling with a fly, though 

 with a minnow, or a worm, something might (I confess) be done. 



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