50 Fly-Fifoing. 



Old Soldier. Becaufe I want him to gorge the 

 bait, and then is the time to ftrike. Ah ! I was 

 too quick for him, though he began moving away. 

 Another minute or two and he would have been 

 very foon in my bafket. In ftriking too foon I 

 jerked the bait out of his mouth. 



Clericus. There is a good deal I fee to be learnt 

 even in trolling for pike. 



Old Soldier. Though fo voracious they are cun- 

 ning enough, and require to be humoured, if you 

 wifh to make their acquaintance. Sometimes I 

 run three or four following without catching one. 



Clericus. Some of the elders of the tribe, I take 

 it, begin to have an inkling of the old faying fo 

 much in vogue out of the water, that " it's not all 

 gold that gliftens." 



Old Soldier. I fhouldn't at all wonder. Some- 

 thing, at any rate, feems to make them very my 

 of me this evening. Suppofe we try our luck 

 higher up the river, as I have fiftied this water a 

 good deal of late. 



Clericus. You fee the tail of that lovely ftream ! 

 I was trying it a few days ago and hooked a trout 

 that rofe at my firft dropper. In drawing him to- 

 wards me I faw the water in commotion juft be- 

 low him in two different directions ; and on a fud- 



