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your Huntfmen this morning, that 

 the Sun is got fo high, and fhines fo 

 clear, that I will not undertake the 

 catching of a Trout till evening ; 

 and though a Chub be by you and 

 many others reckoned the worft of 

 allfifh, yet you fhall fee I'll make it 

 good fifh by drefling it. 



Viat. Why, how will you drefs 

 him? 



Pifc. Fl tell you when I have 

 caught him: look you here, Sir, 

 do you fee ?(but you muft ftand very 

 clofe) there lye upon the top of the 

 water twenty Chubs : I'll catch on- 

 ly one, and that fhall be the biggeft 

 of them all : and that I will do fo, 

 I'll hold you twenty to one. 



mat. I marry, Sir, now you 

 talk like an Artift, and I'll fay, you 

 areone,whenl fhall feeyou perform 

 what you fay you can do; but I yet 

 doubt it. 



P ifc. And that you fhall fee me do 

 prefently; look, the biggeft of thefe 



Cbubs 



