34 Fly-FiJhing, 



Ckricus. How many do you ufually kill in the 

 feafon ? 



Stranger. I can't boaft much of the number. 

 It is hard work too, and mighty tiring when they 

 wont rife.* 



Ckricus. So much fo indeed, and with fuch 

 little encouragement, that I mail flick to the trout 

 and laftfprings. 



Stranger. Ay, and grayling too, which run 

 large, particularly in the ftreams above us. May 

 I be fo bold as to afk for a fight of your flies ? 



Clericus. Oh ! by all means. I fear you wont 

 think much of them, as they were chiefly intended 

 for a narrow ftream I have of late refided near, 

 many a long mile from this. 



Stranger. Pretty flies enough, fir, but they wont 

 do for the Wye. 



Clericus. Why not ? if you will permit the fha- 

 dow of a poor pun to fall upon your favourite 

 river. 



* The efpecial recommendation of ordinary Fly-riming 

 is the fmall amount of incumbrance that attends it in all 

 its accompaniments. Not fo, however, in the cafe of Sal- 

 mon-riming. The rod and tackle alone are burdenfome, 

 to fay nothing of the labour of handling the fame for hours 

 without a rife, as is ufually the cafe, at leaft in the fouth 

 and weft of England. 



