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will choose out these two colours only, of which this is bear's 

 hair, this darker, no great matter what; but I am sure I have 

 killed a great deal of fish with it; and with one or both of these 

 you shall take trout or grayling this very day, notwithstanding 

 all disadvantages, or my art shall fail me. 



VIAT. You promise comfortably, and I have a great deal of 

 reason to believe everything you say; but I wish the fly were 

 made that we were at it. 



PiSC. That will not be long in doing: and pray observe then. 

 You see first how I hold my hook, and thus I begin. Look 

 you, here are my first two or three whips about the bare hook ; 

 thus I join hook and line ; thus I put on my wings ; thus I twirl 

 and lap on my dubbing ; thus I work it up towards the head ; 

 thus I part my wings ; thus I nip my superfluous dubbing from 

 my silk ; thus fasten ; thus trim and adjust my fly ; and there's 

 a fly made ; and now how do you like it ? 



VIAT. In earnest, admirably well, and it resembles a fly : but 

 we about London make the bodies of our flies both much bigger 

 and longer, so long as even almost to the very beard of the 

 hook, 



PiSC. I know it very well, and had one of those flies given 

 me by anjiojiest gentleman, who came with_my father Walton X'D ^ 

 to give me ^j^isjtj^hichjtojtell you the truth) I hung in my 

 partonr^indnvv to laugh Tat L-buL-.sir. you know thejaroverb, 

 " Those who go to Rome must do as they at Rome do ;" and 

 believe me, you must here make your flies after this fashion, or 

 you will take no fish. Come, I will look you out a line, and you 

 shall put it on, and try it. There, sir, I think you are fitted ; and 

 now beyond the further end of the walk you shall begin : I see, K> 

 at that bend of the water above, the airj:risps the water a little : >f^ nj 

 knit your line first here, and then goup thither, and see what 

 you can do. 



VIAT. Did you see that, sir ? 



PiSC. Yes, I saw the fish : and he saw you too, which made 

 him turn short. You must fish further off, if you intend to have 

 any sport here ; this is no New River, let me tell you. That 

 was a good trout, believe me : did you touch him ? 



