TROUT FISHING. 19 



SECOND DAY. 



H ALIEUS POIETES ORNITHER PHYSICUS. 



TROUT FISHING, DENHAM. MAY, 1810. 



Morning. 



HAL. I AM delighted to see you, my worthy 

 friends, on the banks of the Colne ; and am 

 happy to be able to say, that my excellent 

 host has not only made you free of the river 

 for this day's angling, but insists upon your 

 dining with him, wishes you to try the even- 

 ing fishing, and the fishing to-morrow morn- 

 ing, - and proposes to you, in short, to give 

 up twenty- four hours to the delights of an 

 angler's May-day. 



POIET. We are deeply indebted to him; 

 and I hardly know how we can accept his 

 offer, without laying ourselves under too great 

 an obligation. 



HAL. Fear not : he is as noble-minded a 



