4i6 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART IL 



SERV. Sir, will it please you to come to dinner t 



PiSC. Welcome. VpiiJieai^sir; we ^ are "called, and now take 

 your choice, whether you will climb this steep hill before jou, 

 frqin the top of which you will go directly into the house^jor 

 back again over these stepping-stones, and about by the bridge. 



VlAT. Nay, sure, the nearest way is best ; at least my stomach 

 tells me so; and I am now so well acquainted with your rocks 

 that I fear them not. 



PiSC. Come7~then, follow me ; and so soon as we have dined, 

 we will down again to the little house, where I will begin at the 

 place I left off about fly-fishing, and read you another lecture; 

 for I have a great deal more to say upon that subject. 



VIAT. The more the better ; I could never have met with a 

 more obliging master, my first excepted ; nor such sport can all 

 the rivers about London ever afford, as is to be found in this 

 pretty river. 



PiSC. You deserve to have better, both because I see you are 

 willing to take pains, and for liking this little so well; and 

 better I hope to show you before we part 



CHAPTER VII. 



OF ARTIFICIAL FLIES FOR THE MONTHS OF JANUARY, 

 FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY; SHOWING ALSO 

 HOW TO DIB OR DAPE WITH THE GREEN-DRAKE OR 

 MAY-FLY, AND HOW TO MAKE THAT FAMOUS FLY 

 ARTIFICIALLY. 



VIAT. Come, sir, having now well dined, and being again set 

 in your little house, I will now challenge your promise, and 

 entreat you to proceed in your instruction for fly-fishing ; which 

 that you may be the better encouraged to do, I will assure you 

 that I have not lost, I think, one syllable of what you have told 

 me ; but very well retain all your directions, both for the rod, 

 line, and making a fly ; and now desire an account of the flies 

 themselves. 



