CHAPTER X. 



PlSC. O Sir, are you returned ? you have but just pre- 

 vented me. I was coming to call you. 



VIAT. I am glad, then, I have saved you the labour. 



PlSC. And how have you sped ? 



VlAT. You shall see that, Sir, presently : look you, Sir, 

 here are three brace of trouts, one of them the biggest but 

 one that ever I killed with a fly in my life ; and yet I lost 

 a bigger than that, with my fly to boot ; and here are three 

 graylings, and one of them longer by some inches than that 

 I took yesterday, and yet I thought that a good one too. 



PlSC. Why, you have made a pretty good morning's work 

 on 't. And now, Sir, what think you of our river Dove ? 



VlAT. I think it to be the best trout river in England, and 

 am so far in love with it, that if it were mine, and that I 



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