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din'd, we will down again to the little house : where I will 

 begin, at the place I left off, about fly-fishing, and read 

 you another lecture ; for I have a great deal more to say 

 upon that subject. 



Viat. The more the better; I could never have met 

 with a more obliging master, my first excepted. Nor such 

 sport can all the rivers about London ever afford, as is to 

 be found in this pretty river. 



Pise. You deserve to have bette'r ; both because I see 

 you are willing to take pains, and for liking this little so 

 well ; and better I hope to shew you before we part. 



CHAP. VII. 



FISHING AT THE TOP. Ftiet for the Months of January, February, 

 March, April, and part of May ; including, under May, particular 

 Directions for baiting with the Green-Drake. 



Viator. COME, Sir, having now well din'd, and being 

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

 promise, and entreat you to proceed in your instruction 

 for fly-fishing : which, that you may be the better encou- 

 raged to do, I will assure you, that I have not lost, I think, 

 one syllable of what you have told me; but very well re- 

 tain all your directions, both for the rod, line, and making 

 a fly, and now desire an account of the flies themselves. 



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

 have the whole afternoon to do it in, if nobody come in 

 to interrupt us; for you must know, (besides the unfitness 

 of the day,) that the afternoons, so early in March, sig- 

 nify very little to angling with a fly, though with a min- 

 now, or a worm, something might (I confess) be done. 



To begin, then, where J left off, My father Walton tells 



