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CHAPTER V. 



MORE DIRECTIONS HOW TO FISH FOR, AND HOW TO MAKE FOR THE 



TROUT AN ARTIFICIAL MINNOW AND FLIES ; WITH SOME 



MERRIMENT. 



Pise. Well met, brother Peter : I heard you and a friend 

 would lodge here to-night, and that hath made me to bring 

 my friend to lodge here too. My friend is one that would 

 fain be a brother of the angle ; he hath been an angler but 

 this day, and I have taught him how to catch a chub by dap- 

 ing with a grasshopper, and the chub that he caught was a 

 lusty one of nineteen inches long. But pray, brother Peter, 

 who is your companion "? 



PETER. Brother Piscator, my friend is an honest country- 

 man, and his name is Coridon, and he is a downright witty 

 companion, that met me here purposely to be pleasant and 

 eat a trout, and I have not yet wetted my line since we met 

 together ; but I hope to fit him with a trout for his break- 

 fast, for I'll be early up. 



Pise. Nay, brother, you shall not stay so long : for, look 

 you, here is a trout will fill six reasonable bellies. 



Come, hostess, dress it presently, and get us what other 

 meat the house will afford, and give us some of your best 

 barley-wine, the good liquor that our honest forefathers did 

 use to drink of; the drink which preserved their health, and 

 made them live so long, and do so many good deeds. 



PETER. O' my word, this trout is perfect in season. Come 

 I thank you, and here is a hearty draught to you, and to all 

 the brothers of the angle wheresoever they be, and to my 

 young brother's good fortune to-morrow. I will furnish him 

 with a rod if you will furnish him with the rest of the tackling ; 

 we will set him up and make him a fisher. And I will tell 

 him one thing for his encouragement, that his fortune hath 

 made him happy to be scholar to such a master j a master 

 that knows as much, both of the nature and breeding of fish, 

 as any man ; and can also tell him as well how to catch and 

 cook them, from the minnow to the salmon, as any that I 

 ever met withal. 



