i io Fly-FiJhmg. 



Pifcator. A different fpecies, perhaps, from the 

 ordinary trout we are accuftomed to fee. 



Clericus. I believe the foil through which the 

 water flows has a great influence on the colour, as 

 well as growth of trout. I remember three years 

 ago fiftiing not far from the French prifon in a 

 fparkling little brook on Dartmoor, when the firft 

 trout I hooked I miftook for a fifh I had never 

 feen before, until I took it in my hands and faw it 

 was a trout, though almoft black. If you could 

 tranfplant fome of the black fellows from the fame 

 French prifon waters to the Grwyne Fawr, they 

 would foon exchange their prifon-drefs, I believe, 

 for the like golden garments ; for why fhould 

 not trout follow the fafhion of the day as well as 

 you ? 



Pifcator. I believe you are right. For one 

 thing is pretty certain ; and that is, that the black 

 peat of Dartmoor communicates its unfightly colour 

 to the trout j and fome property of the foil muft 

 tinge the trout of the Grwyne Fawr with bright 

 yellow. 



Clericus. If you wifh to fay more on this fubjecT:, 

 had you not better defer it to a lefs unfeafonable 

 hour ? It is more than half-paft twelve, and later 

 than this no Pifcator ought to keep out of his bed, 



