SECOND DAY. 4*5 



end of the walk you shall begin : I see, at that bend of the 

 water above, the air crisps the water a little : knit your line 

 first here, and then go up thither and see what you can do. 



VlAT. Did you see that, Sir ? 



PlSC. Yes, I saw the fish, and he saw you too, which made 

 him turn short. You must fish farther off if you intend to 

 have any sport here : this is no New River, let me tell you. 

 That was a good trout, believe me. Did you touch him ? 



VlAT. No, I would I had, we would not have parted so. 

 Look you, there is another : this is an excellent fly. 



PlSC. That fly, I am sure, would kill fish if the day were 

 right ; but they only chew at it, I see, and will not take it. 

 Come, Sir, let us return back to the fishing-house : this still 

 water, I see, will not do our business to-day. You shall now, 

 if you please, make a fly yourself, and try what you can do 

 in the streams with that ; and I know a trout taken with a 

 fly of your own making will please you better than twenty 

 with one of mine. Give me that bag again, sirrah. Look 

 you, Sir, there is a hook, towght, silk, and a feather for the 

 wings ; be doing with those, and I will look you out a 

 dubbing that I think will do. 



VlAT. This is a very little hook. 



PlSC. That may serve to inform you that it is for a very 

 little fly, and you must make your wings accordingly ; for 

 as the case stands, it must be a little fly, and a very little one 

 too, that must do your business. Well said ! believe me you 

 shift your fingers very handsomely ; I doubt I have taken 

 upon me to teach my master. So, here 's your dubbing now, 



VlAT. This dubbing is very black. 



PlSC. It appears so in hand, ]?ut step to the door and hold 

 it up betwixt your eye and the sun, and it will appear a 



