4H THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



you, Sir, amongst all these I will choose out these two 

 colours only, of which this is bear's hair ; this darker, no 

 great matter what ; but I am sure I have killed a great deal 

 of fish with it ; and with one or both of these you shall take 

 trout or grayling this very day, notwithstanding all dis- 

 advantages, or my art shall fail me. 



VlAT. You promise comfortably, and I have a great deal 

 of reason to believe everything you say ; but I wish the fly 

 were made, that we were at it. 



PlSC. That will not be long in doing ; and pray observe 

 then. You see first how I hold my hook, and thus I begin : 

 look you, here are my first two or three whips about the 

 bare hook ; thus I join hook and line ; thus I put on my 

 wings ; thus I twirl and lap on my dubbing ; thus I work it 

 up towards the head ; thus I part my wings ; thus I nip my 

 superfluous dubbing from my silk ; thus fasten ; thus trim 

 and adjust my fly ; and there 's a fly made. And now how 

 do you like i-t ? 



VlAT. In earnest, admirably well, and it resembles a fly ; 

 but we about London make the bodies of our flies both 

 much bigger and longer, so long as even almost to the very 

 beard of the hook. 



PlSC. I know it very well, and had one of those flies given 

 me by an honest gentleman, who came with my father 

 Walton to give me a visit, which (to tell you the truth) I 

 hung in my parlour window to laugh at ; but, Sir, you know 

 the proverb, " They who go to Rome must do as they at 

 Rome do ; " and believe me, you must here make your flies 

 after this fashion, or you will take no fish. Come, I will look 

 you out a line, and you shall put it on, and try it. There, 

 Sir, now I think you are fitted, and now beyond the farther 



