CHAP. X. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



CHAP. X. 



Directions how to dress a Trout and Grayling. 



Piscator. OH, Sir, are you returned? you have but just 

 prevented me. I was coming to call you. 



Viat. I am glad then I have sav'd you the labour. 



Pise. And how have you sped ? 



Viat. You shall see that, Sir, presently ; look you, Sir, 

 here are three brace * of Trouts, one of them 9 Spoke Kke a 

 the biggest but one that ever I killed with a south, coun- 

 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. 



Pise. Why you have made a pretty good morning's 

 work on't; and now, Sir, what think you of our river 

 Dove? 



Viat. 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 could keep it to myself, I would not exchange that water 

 for all the land it runs over, to be totally debarred from't. 



Pise. That compliment to the river, speaks you a true 

 lover of the art of angling. And now, Sir, to make part 

 of amends for sending you so uncivilly out alone this 

 morning, I will myself dress you this dish of fish for your 

 dinner: walk but into the parlour, you will find one book 

 or other, in the window, to entertain you the while : and 

 you shall have it presently. 

 Viat. Well, Sir, I obey you. 



Pise.. Look you, Sir, have I not made haste? 

 Viat. Believe me, Sir, that you have ; and it looks so 

 well, I long to be at it. 



Pise. Fall to then : now, Sir, what say you, am I a 

 tolerable cook or no ? 



