CHAPTER VII 



VlAT. Come, Sir, having now well dined, and being again 

 set in your little house, I will now challenge your promise, 

 and intreat you to proceed in your instruction for fly-fishing; 

 which that you may be the better encouraged to do, I will 

 assure you that I have not lost, I think, one syllable of what 

 you have told me ; but very well retain all your directions, 

 both for the rod, line, and making a fly, and now desire an 

 account of the flics themselves. 



PlSC. Why, Sir, I am ready to give it you, and shall have 

 the whole afternoon to do it in, if nobody come in to inter- 

 rupt us ; for you must know (besides the unfitness of the 

 day), that the afternoons, so early in March, signify very 

 little to angling with a fly, though with a minnow, or a worm, 

 something might (I confess) be done. 



To begin, then, where I left off, my father Walton tells 



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