CHAP. VI.] THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 2/1 



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 conjurors 

 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 ! 



Pise. O Sir, this is a war where you sometimes win, and 

 must sometimes expect to lose. Never concern yourself for the 

 loss of your fly ; for ten to one I teach you to make a better. 

 Who f s that calls? 



SERVANT. Sir, will it please you to come to dinner ? 



Pise. We come. You hear, Sir, we are called; and now 

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

 you, from the top of which you will go directly into the house, 

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

 bridge. 



VIAT. 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. 



Pise. Come, 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 an- 

 other 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. 



Pise. 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. 



