

TROUT. 



CHAPTER V. 



MORE DIRECTIONS HOW TO FISH FOR, AND HOW TO 

 MAKE FOR THE TROUT AN ARTIFICIAL MINNOW 

 AND FLIES; WITH SOME MERRIMENT. 



[C&irfc gag.] 



PlSC. 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 

 daping 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 

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



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