2i2 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART n. 



VIAT, No, I would I had, we would not have parted so. Look 

 you, there is another ; this is an excellent fly. 



PlSC. That fly I am sure would kill fish, if the day were right: 

 but they only chew at it, I see, and will not take it. Come, 

 sir, let us return back to the fishing-house : this still water, I 

 see, will not do our business to-day : you shall now, if you please, 

 make a fly yourself, and try what you can do in the streams with 

 that : and I know a trout taken with a fly of your own making 

 will please you better than twenty v'th one of mine. Give me 

 that bag again, sirrah : look you, sir, there is a hook, towght, 

 silk, and a feather for the wings : be doing with those, and I will 

 look you out a dubbing that I think will do. 



VIAT. This is a very little hook. 



PlSC. That may serve to inform you that it is for a very little 

 fly, and you must make your wings accordingly ; for as the case 

 stands, it must be a little fly, and a very little one too, that must 

 do your business. Well said ! believe me, you shift your fingers 

 very handsomely; I doubt I have taken upon me to teach my 

 master. So here's your dubbing now. 



VlAT. This dubbing is very black. 



PlSC. It appears so in hand ; but step to the door and hold 

 it up betwixt your eye and the sun, and it will appear a shining 

 red ; let me tell you, never a man in England can discern the 

 true colour of a dubbing any way but that, and therefore chuse 

 always to make your flies on such a bright sunshine day as this, 

 which also you may the better do, because it is worth nothing to 

 fish in : here, put it on, and be sure to make the body of your fly 

 as tender as you can. Very good ! upon my word you have made 

 a marvellous handsome fly. 



VIAT. I am very glad to hear it ; it is the first that ever I 

 made of this kind in my life. 



PlSC. Away,jwa^_jyou are a doctor_atjt ; but I will not com- 

 mend vouToo ^muchjTeTFT^akevauproud! Come, put It on, 

 an3~you~~srTaTriiow go downward to some streams betwixt the 

 rocks below the little foot bridge you see there, and try your 

 fortune. Take heed of slipping into the water as you follow me 

 under this rock: so, now you are over, and now throw in. 



