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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 

 another lecture ; for I have a great deal more to say upon 

 that subject. 



YIAT. 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. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 [Scconti Bat).] 



YIAT. Come, sir, having now well dined, and being again 

 set in your little house, I will now challenge your promise, 

 and entreat you to proceed in your instruction for fly-fishing ; 

 which that you may be the better encouraged to do, I will 

 assure you that I have not lost, I think, one syllable of what 

 you have told me ; but very well retain all your directions, 

 both for the rod, line, and making a fly; and now desire an 

 account of the flies themselves. 



Pise. Why, sir, I am ready to give it you, and shall have 

 the whole afternoon to do it in, if nobody come in to inter- 

 rupt us; for you must know (besides the unfitness of the day) 

 that the afternoons, so early in March, signify very little for 

 angling with a fly, though with a minnow, or a worm, some- 

 thing might (I confess) be done. 



To begin, then, where I left off, my father Walton tells us 

 of but twelve artificial flies only, to angle with at the top, 

 and gives their names ; of which some are common with us 

 here ; and I think I guess at most of them by his descrip- 

 tion, and I believe they all breed and are taken in our rivers, 

 though we do not make them either of the same dubbing or 

 fashion. And it may be in the rivers about London, which 

 I presume he has most frequented, and where it is likely he 



