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VlAT. I'll obey your direction, and so good morning to you. 

 Come, young man, let you and I walk together. But hark you, 

 sir, I have not done with you yet ; I expect another lesson for 

 angling at the bottom, in the afternoon. 



PiSC. Well, sir, I'll be ready for you. 



CHAPTER X. 



DIRECTIONS HOW TO DRESS A TROUT OR GRAYLING. 



PiSC. Oh, sir, are you returned ? you have but just prevented 

 me. I was coming to call you. 



VIAT. I am glad then I have saved you the labour. 



PiSC. And how have you sped ? 



VlAT. You shall see that, sir, presently; look you, sir, here 

 are three brace of trouts, one of them the biggest but one that 

 ever I killed with a fly in my life ; and yet I lost a bigger than 

 that, with my fly to boot ; and here are three graylings, and one 

 of them longer by some inches than that I took yesterday, and 

 yet I thought that a good one, too. 



PiSC. Why you have made a pretty good morning's work on't ; 

 and now, sir, what think you of our river Dove ? 



VlAT. I think it to be the best trout river in England ; and 

 am so far in love with it, that if it were mine, and that I could 

 keep it to myself, I would not exchange that water for all the 

 land it runs over, to be totally debarred from it. 



PiSC. That compliment to the river speaks you a true lover 

 of the art of angling ; and now, sir, to make part of amends for 

 sending you so uncivilly out alone this morning, I will myself 

 dress you this dish ot fTSll for 'your dinner ; walk but into the 

 parlour, you will find one book or other in the window to enter- 

 tain you the while, and you shall have it presently. 



VIAT. Well, sir, I ob"ey you. 



PiSC. Look you, sir, have I not made haste ? 



VIAT. Believe me, sir, that you have ; and it looks so well, I 

 long to be at it. 



