SECOND DAY.] FLIES. 47 



PHYS. Anclie lo son Pescatore I too am a 

 fisherman a triumph. 



HAL. Now we have finished our fishing, and must 

 return to the light supper of our host. It would be 

 easy now, and between this hour and ten, to take 

 half-a-dozen large fish in this part of the water ; but 

 for the reason I have already stated, it would be 

 improper. 



POIET. Pray would not this be a good part of 

 the water for day-fishing ? 



HAL. Undoubtedly, a skilful angler might take 

 fish here in the day ; but the bank is shaded by trees, 

 there is seldom any sensible wind on the water, and 

 the apparatus and the boat in motion are easily 

 perceived in the daylight ; and the water is so deep, 

 that a great quantity of fly is necessary to call up the 

 fish ; and in general there is a larger quantity of fly 

 in hot summer evenings, than even in the brightest 

 sunshine. 



PHYS. The fly appears to me like a moth that is 

 now on the water. 



HAL. It is. 



POIET. What flies come on late in the season 

 here? 



HAL. Plies of the same species; some darker, 

 and some with a deeper shade of red; and there are 

 likewise the true moths, the brown and white, which, 



