304 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART II. 



CHAP. VI. 



Flthing at the top continued. farther Direction* for Fit/ -making. 

 Time when the GRAYLING w in season. Rock in Pike-Pool. 



Piscator. BOY ! come, give me my dubbing-bag here 

 presently; and now, Sir, since I find you so honest a man, 

 I will make no scruple to lay open my treasure before you. 



Viator. Did ever any one see the like ! what a heap of 

 trumpery is here ! certainly never an angler in Europe has 

 his shop half so well furnished as you have. 



Pise. You, perhaps, may think now, that I rake toge- 

 ther this trumpery, as you call it, for shew only, to the 

 end that such as see it (which are not many, I assure you) 

 may think me a great master in the art of angling : but 

 let me tell you, here are colours (as contemptible as they 

 seem here) that are very hard to be got, and scarce any 

 one of them which, if it should be lost, I should not mi--, 

 and be concerned about the loss of it too, once in the 

 year. But look you, Sir, amongst all these I will chuse 

 out these two colours only ; of which, this is bear's hair r 

 this darker, no great matter what ; but I am sure I have 

 killed a great deal of fish with it ; and with one or both 

 of these, you shall take Trout or Grayling this very day, 

 notwithstanding all disadvantages, or my art shall fail me. 



Viat. You promise comfortably, and I have a great 

 deal of reason to believe every thing you say : but I wish 

 the fly were made, that we were at it. 



Pise. That will not be long in doing : and pray observe 

 then. You see, first, how I hold my hook ; and thus I 

 begin. Look you, here are my first two or three whips 

 about the bare hook ; thus I join hook and line ; thus I 

 put on my wings ; thus I twirl and lap on my dubbing ; 



