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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. 



Pise. 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. 



VIAT. This dubbing is very black. 



Pise. 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 color of a dubbing any way but that ; and therefore choose 

 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 slender as you can. Very good ! Upon my word 

 you have made a marvellous handsome fly. 



VIAT. I am very glad to hear it; 't is the first that ever I 

 made of this kind in my life. 



Pise. Away, away ! You are a doctor at it : but I will not 

 commend you too much, lest I make you proud. Come, put 

 it on, and you shall now 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. 



VIAT. This is a fine stream indeed ! There 's one ! I have 

 him. 



Pise. And a precious catch you have of him ; pull him out ! 

 I see you have a tender hand. This is a diminutive gentleman, 

 e'en throw him in again, and let him grow till he be more 

 worthy your anger. 



