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and with one or both of these you shall take trout or grayling 

 this very day, notwithstanding all disadvantages, or my art 

 shall fail rne. 



YIAT. You promise comfortably, and I have a great deal of 

 reason to believe everything you say ; but I wish the fly were 

 made, that we were at it. 



Pise. That will not be long in doing : and pray observe 

 then. You see first how I hold my hook, and thus I begin. 

 Look you, here are my first two or three whips about the 

 bare hook ; thus I join hook and line ; thus I put on my 

 wings ; thus I twirl and lap on my dubbing ; thus I work it 

 up towards the head ; thus I part my wings ; thus I nip my 

 superfluous dubbing from my silk ; thus fasten ; thus trim 

 and adjust my fly ; and there's a fly made ; and now how do 

 you like it ? 



YIAT. In earnest, admirably well, and it resembles a fly : 

 but we about London, make the bodies of our flies both much 

 bigger and longer, so long as even almost to the very beard 

 of the hook. 



Pise. I know it very well, and had one of those flies given 

 me by an honest gentleman, who came with my father Walton 

 to give me a visit ; which (to tell you the truth) I hung in 

 my parlour window to laugh at : but, sir, you know the 

 proverb, " Those who go to Rome must do as they at Rome 

 do ;" and believe me, you must here make your flies after 

 this fashion, or you will take no fish. Come, I will look 

 you out a line, and you shall put it on, and try it. There, 

 sir, now I think you are fitted ; and now beyond the fur- 

 ther end of the walk you shall begin : I see, at that bend of 

 the water above, the air crisps the water a little : knit your 

 line first here, and then go up thither, and see what you 

 can do. 



YIAT. Did you see that, sir ? 



Pise. Yes, I saw the fish : and he saw you too, which 

 made him turn short. You must fish further off, if you 

 intend to have any sport here j this is no New River, let me 

 tell you. That was a good trout, believe me : did you touch him ? 



YIAT. No, I would I had, we would not have parted so. 

 Look you, there is another : this is an excellent fly. 



Pise. That fly I am sure would kill fish, if the day were 

 right : but they only chew at it, I see, and will not take it. 

 Come, sir, let us return back to the fishing-house : this still 

 water, I see, will not do our business to-day : you shall now, 



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