THE THIRD DAY. 



CHAPTER II. 



(Continued.) 



Yen. Well, now let's go to your sport of angling. 



Pise. Let's be going with all my heart. God keep you 

 all, gentlemen ; and send you meet, this day, with another 

 bitch-otter, and kill her merrily, and all her young ones too. 



Ten. Now, Piscator, where will you begin to fish ? 



Pisc.We are not yet come to a likely place ; I must walk 

 a mile further yet before I begin. 



Yen. Well, then, I pray, as we walk, tell me freely, how 

 do you like your lodging, and mine host and the company ? 

 Is not mine host a witty man ? 



Pise. Sir, I will tell you, presently, what I think of your 

 host : but, first, I will tell you, I am glad these otters were 

 killed ; and I am sorry there are no more otter-killers ; for 

 I know that the want of otter-killers, and the not keeping 

 the fence-months for the preservation of fish, will, in time, 

 prove the destruction of all rivers. And those very few 

 that are left, that make conscience of the laws of the 

 nation, 1 and of keeping days of abstinence, will be forced 



1 This passage, which from " Is not mine Host a witty man," down to 

 "I speak truly," on the next page, is not in the first edition, alludes to 

 a statute, 5 Eliz. , enacting, that any person who eats flesh on the usual 



