CHAPTER VI. 



PiSC. Boy, come, give me my dubbing-bag here presently. 

 And now, Sir, since I find you so honest a man, I will make 

 no scruple to lay open my treasure before you. 



VIAT. Did ever any one see the like ! What a heap of 

 trumpery is here ! Certainly never an angler in Europe has 

 Lis shop half so well furnished as you have. 



PiSC. You, perhaps, may think now, that I rake together 

 this trumpery, as you call it, for show only, to the end that 

 such as see it, which are not many, I assure you, may think 

 me a great master in the art of angling ; but, let me tell you, 

 here arc some colours, as contemptible as they seem here, 

 that are very hard to be got ; and scarce any one of them 

 which, if it should be lost, I should not miss, and be con- 

 cerned about the loss of it too, once in the year. But look 



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