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THIRD DAY. 

 CHAPTER IX. 



PlSC. A good day to you, sir ; I see you will always be 

 stirring before me. 



VIAT. Why, to tell you the truth, I am so allured with the 

 sport I had yesterday, that I long to be at the river again ; and 

 when I heard the wind sing in my chamber window, could for- 

 bear no longer, but leapt out of bed, and had just made an end 

 of dressing myself as you came in. 



PlSC. Well, I am both glad you are so ready for the day, and 

 that the day is so fit for you ; and look you, I have made you 

 three or four flies this morning ; this silver-twist hackle, this 

 bear's dun, this light brown, and this dark brown, any of which 

 I dare say will do ; but you may try them all, and see which does 

 best ; only I must ask your pardon that I cannot wait upon you 

 this morning, a little business being fallen out, that for two or 

 three hours will deprive me of your company: but I'll come and 

 call you home to dinner, and my man shall attend you. 



VIAT. Oh, sir, mind your affairs by all means. Do but lend 

 me a little of your skill to these fine flies, and, unless it have 

 forsaken me since yesterday, I shall find luck of my own, I hope, 

 to do something. 



PlSC. The best instruction I can give you is, that seeing the 

 wind curls the water, and blows the right way, you would now 

 angle up the still deep to-day ;> for betwixt the rocks where the 

 streams are, you will find it now too brisk ; and besides, I would 

 have you take fish in both waters. 



