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CHAPTER X 



ISC. Oh, sir, are you returned ? you have but just 

 prevented me. I was coming to call you. 



VIAT. I am glad then I have saved you the 

 labour. 



Pise. And how have you sped ? 

 VIAT. You shall see that, sir, presently ; look 

 you, sir, here are three brace of trouts, one of 

 them the biggest but one that ever I killed with a fly in my life ; 

 and yet I lost a bigger than that, with my fly to boot ; and here 

 are three graylings, and one of them longer by some inches than 

 that I took yesterday, and yet I thought that a good one, too. 



Pise. Why you have made a pretty good morning's work on't ; 

 and now, sir, what think you of our river Dove ? 



VIAT. I think it to be the best trout river in England ; and am 

 so far in love with it, that if it were mine, and that I could keep it 

 to myself, I would not exchange that water for all the land it runs 

 over, to be totally debarred from it. 



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