420 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



conjurors can do spirits, and afterward make them do what 

 you bid them ; for here 's a trout has taken my fly, I had 

 rather have lost a crown. What luck 's this ! he was a lovely 

 fish, and turned up a side like a salmon. 



PlSC. O Sir, this is a war where you sometimes win, and 

 must sometimes expect to lose. Never concern yourself for 

 the loss of your fly, for ten to one I teach you to make a 

 better. Who 's that calls ? 



SERV. Sir, will it please you to come to dinner ? 



PlSC. We come. You hear, Sir, we are called ; and now 

 take your choice, whether you will climb this steep hill be- 

 fore you, from the top of which you will go directly into the 

 house, or back again over these stepping-stones, and about 

 by the bridge. 



ViAT. Nay, sure, the nearest way is best ; at least my 

 stomach tells me so ; and I am now so well acquainted with 

 your rocks, that I fear them not. 



PlSC. Come, then, follow me ; and so soon as we have 

 dined, we will down again to the little house, where I will 

 begin at the place I left off about fly-fishing, and read you 

 another lecture ; for I have a great deal more to say upon 

 that subject. 



VIAT. The more the better. I could never have met with 

 a more obliging master, my first excepted ; nor such sport 

 can all the rivers about London ever afford, as is to be 

 found in this pretty river. 



PlSC. You deserve to have better, both because I see you 

 are willing to take pains, and for liking this little so well ; 

 and better I hope to shew you before we part. 



