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In cafe, however, you referable an acquaintance 

 of mine, who afTured me, with a very knowing look, 

 he could learn the moft difficult as well as the 

 eafieft of arts, from farming to fly-fifhing, within 

 three months ; and in felf-reliance defpife the ru- 

 diments of the leflbn I have taken fuch pains to 

 inftil upon you ; I mould not be at all furprifed if 

 you were to follow the example of a friend Pifca- 

 tor is not unacquainted with, who did, after fome 

 days' continuous labour, contrive to hook a trout 

 not much larger than a minnow ! Kindly as my 

 brother Pifcator interceded for the little captive, 

 that it might live on a few months longer in the 

 fparkling ftream ; it was all in vain. " A fifti is 

 a fifh," exclaimed the proud captor, and at once 

 depofited his prize in folitary grandeur in a moft 

 capacious bafket he had flung round his fhoulders. 



