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his career as a fly-fisher, and who, I dare say, has 

 been as successful as the uninitiated generally are. 

 I hope you have followed my advice, and been 

 fortunate ? 



PHYS. I caught tAvo trout in the rapid where you 

 left me; but they were small, and the fisherman 

 threw them in. Below the wear, in the quick stream, 

 I caught two dace, and, what astonished me very 

 much, a perch, which you see here, and which I 

 thought never took the fly. 



HAL. yes, sometimes ; and particularly when it 

 is below the surface : and what more ? 



PHYS. By creeping on my knees, and dropping 

 my fly over the bank, I hooked a very large fish 

 which I saw rising, and which was like a salmon ; but 

 he was too strong for my tackle, ran out all my line, 

 and at last broke off by entangling my link in a post 

 in the river. I have been very unlucky ! I am sure 

 that fish was larger than the great one Ornither took 

 with the natural fly. 



HAL. Come, you have been initiated, and I see 

 begin to take an interest in the sport, and I do not 

 despair of your becoming a distinguished angler. 



PHYS. With time and some patience : but I am 

 sorry I tortured that enormous fish without taking 

 him. 



HAL. I dare say he was a large fish ; but I have 



