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try what you can do in the streams with that: and I 

 know a Trout taken with a fly of your own making, will 

 please you better than twenty with one of mine. Give me 

 that bag again, sirrah: look you, Sir, there is a hook, 

 towght, silk, and a feather for the wings : be doing with 

 those, and I will look you out a dubbing that I think 

 will do. 



Vint. This is a very little hook. 



Pise. That may serve to inform you, that it is for a 

 very little fly, and you must make your wings accordingly; 

 for as the case stands, it must be a little fly, and a very 

 little one too, that must do your business. Well said ! 

 believe me, you shift your fingers very handsomely. I 

 doubt I have taken upon me to teach my master. So, 

 here's your dubbing now. 



Viat. This dubbing is very black. 



Pitc. It appears so in hand ; but step to the doors and 

 hold it up betwixt your eye and the sun, and it will ap- 

 pear a shining red ; let me tell you, never a man in Eng- 

 land can discern the true colour of a dubbing any way 

 but that ; and therefore choose always to make your flies 

 on such a bright sun-shine day as this, which also you 

 may the better do, because it is worth nothing to fish in. 

 Here, put it on ; and be sure to make the body of your fly 

 as slender as you can. Very good ! upon my word, you 

 have made a marvellous handsome fly. 



Viat. I am very glad to hear it ; 'tis the first that ever 

 1 made of this kind, in my life. 



Pise. Away, away ! You are a doctor at it : but I will 



tell the muter of it, as Dapper doe* Subtle in the Alchtmut, that they want a 

 Jljt; for which they have a thing put into their hands that would pose a natu- 

 ralist tn 6od a resemblance for : though, when particular directions have been 

 given. I have known them excellently made by the persons employed by the 

 fishing-tackle makers in London. But do thou, my honest friend, learn to 

 make thy own flies; and be assured, that in collecting and arranging the mate- 

 rials, and imitating the various shape* and colours of these admirable creatures, 

 toere is little less pleasure than even in catching fish. 



