Ffy~Ft/hing. us 



Clerlcus. You forget we are no longer under- 

 graduates, and that fuch pranks would hardly add 

 to the refpeft I confefs I do not like to fee forfeited 

 towards any of our cloth. 



Pifcator. You talk as if I really meant to put 

 my propofal into practice ; and yet you ought to 

 know me better than to fuppofe it poflible I could 

 hurt a fingle hair of fuch a true Waltonian head 

 as that on your fhoulders. 



Clerlcus. By the way, Pifcator, how kindly thofe 

 two quaint-looking old women at the turnpike 

 feemed to look at you ! What have you done to 

 get into their good graces no very eafy talk, I 

 imagine ? 



Pifcator. Nothing more than you would do 

 yourfelf; I leave them a few trout occafionally 

 when I return from the Cap.* 



Clerlcus. I was thinking the other day when 

 we emptied the contents of our bafkets into two 

 of your largeft dimes, what on earth you could do 

 with fo many fifh ! 



Pifcator. We parfons, in fpite of the fat Livings 



* Between Hereford and Abergavenny there is an Inn 

 called the Cap, fituated almoft on the banks of the Mon- 

 now, and kept by very civil people. 



