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is the staple of the district, so pleasuring, to use 

 a colloquialism, may be said to be its business, 

 and especially here. 



AMICUS. All I see around me, the many 

 neat cottages and gardens, the many hand- 

 some villas and grounds, shew this : nor am I 

 surprised, looking at the general features of 

 the country, hereabout particularly, where, with 

 so much near beauty, there is combined so much 

 of grandeur as displayed in the distant and 

 girding mountains. 



PISCATOE. As the fisherman says we may have 

 a chance of killing a trout with the rod, we will 

 commence our angling in our ordinary way. 

 Let me advise you to put on at least one green 

 drake, and let it be the tail fly. This is about 

 the time that the green drake comes on, and 

 no fly is more attractive to the trout or charr. 

 Boatman, take us off the mouth of the river ; 

 that is good ground for trout. The river I 

 speak of is the one formed by the junction of 

 the Brathay with the Eothay. 



AMICUS. By the way tell me something of 

 the fish of the lake, and the mode of fishing 

 which you spoke of as. poaching, and something 

 too, if you please, of the lake itself; that I may 

 be prepared. 



