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there distant from the rock, this is called Pike Pool. And 

 young Mr. Izaak Walton was so pleased with it, as to draw 

 it in landscape, in black and white, in a blank book I have 

 at home, as he has done several prospects of my house also, 

 which I keep for a memorial of his favour, and will show you 

 when we come up to dinner. 



YIAT. Has young master Izaak Walton been here, too ? 



Pise. Yes, marry has he, sir, and that again and again, too, 

 and in France since, and at Rome, and at Venice, and I can't 

 tell where : but I intend to ask him a great many hard ques- 

 tions so soon as I can see him, which will be, God willing, 

 next month. In the meantime, sir, to come to this fine 

 stream at the head of this great pool, you must venture over 

 these slippery, cobbling stones ; believe me, sir, there you 

 were nimble, or else you had been down ; but now you are 

 got over, look to yourself : for, on my word, if a fish rise 

 here, he is like to be such a one as will endanger your tackle : 

 how now ! 



YIAT. I think you have such command here over the fishes, 

 that you can raise them by your word, as they say conjurers 

 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's that calls ] 



SERV. 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. 



YIAT. 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. 



opulent soap-boiler of London, built it within the present century. Its picture- 

 gallery is one of the finest in the kingdom, and in the chapel there is a monu- 

 ment to the memory of the late Mrs. Watts Ilussell and children, byChantrey, 

 and considered equal to any of his other statues. ED.] 



* Not taken it in the ordinary angling acceptation, but taken it off the line 

 broken away with it, so that both fish and fly are lost. ED. 



