CHAP. vi. THE SECOND DAY. 215 



PiSC. And all this in a strange river, and with a fly of your 

 own making ! why, what a dangerous man are you ! 



VIAT. I, sir: but who taught me? and as Damaetas says 

 by his man Dorus, so you may say by me 



" If any man such praises have. 

 Whatthen have!, that taught the knave !" 



But what have we got here? a rock springing up in the middle 

 of the river ! this is one of the oddest sights that ever I saw. 



PiSC. Wliy^_sir^jQxim__that pike that you see standing up there 

 distantJiBta^the rock, thisis called Tike .Fo'ol. And young Mr. 

 I zajik Walton was so pleased with it, as to draw it in landscape, 

 inblackandjvhite, in a blank book I have at home, as he has 

 done several prospects of my house also, which I keep for a 

 memorial of his favour, and will show you- when we come up to 

 dinner. 



VIAT. Ha^ypjonj[jriastex_lzaak- Walton been hexe^Joo ? 



PiSC. Yej, many has he, sir, and that again and again, too, 

 and in France~smce, and at Rome, and_at Venice, and I can't 

 tell wHereTlHITT intend to ask him a great many hard ques- 

 tions so soon as I can see him, which will be, God willing, next 

 nTonth. In the meantime, sir, to come to this fine stream at the 

 head of this great pool, you must venture over these slippery, 

 cobbling stones ; believe me, sir, there you were nimble, or else 

 you had been down ; but now you are got over, look to your- 

 self : for, on my word, if a fish rise here, he is like to be such 

 a one as will endanger your tackle : how now ! 



VIAT. I think you have such command here over the fishes, 

 that you can raise them by your word, as they say conjurers can 

 do spirits, and afterward make them do what you bid them, 

 for here's a trout has taken my fly, I had rather have lost a 

 crown. What luck's this ! he was a lovely fish, and turned up 

 a side like a salmon. 



PiSC. Q^.sir, this is a war where you sometimes win, and 

 must sometimes expectlo_ lose. Never concern yourselfjfqr the 

 lossoF ^our^y^orTento one Tteach you to make a better* 

 WK5VtliaFcalls ? 



