412 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



the point of a needle, raise up the dubbing gently from the 

 warp, twitch off the superfluous hairs of your dubbing; leave 

 the wings of an equal length, your fly will never else swim 

 true, and the work is done. And this way of making a fly, 

 which is certainly the best of all other, was taught me by a 

 kinsman of mine, one Captain Henry Jackson, a near neigh- 

 bour, an admirable fly-angler, by many degrees the best fly- 

 maker that ever I yet met with. An I now that I have told 

 you how a fly is to be made, you shall presently see me make 

 one, with which you may peradventure take a trout this 

 morning, notwithstanding the unlikeliness of the day ; for 

 it is now nine of the clock, and fish will begin to rise, if they 

 will rise to-day : I will walk along by you, and look on, and 

 after dinner I will proceed in my lecture of fly-fishing. 



VlAT. I confess I long to be at the river, and yet I could 

 sit here all day to hear you ; but some of the one, and some 

 of the other, will do well ; and I have a mighty ambition to 

 trout in your river Dove. 



PiSC. I warrant you shall : I would not for more than I 

 will speak of but you should, seeing I have so extolled my 

 river to you ; nay, I will keep you here a month but you 

 shall have one good day of sport before you go. 



VlAT. You will find me, 1 doubt, too tractable that way ; 

 for in good earnest, if business would give me leave, and 

 that it were fit, I could find in my heart to stay with you 

 for ever. 



PiSC. I thank you, Sir, for that kind expression. And 

 now let me look out my things to make this fly. 



