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morning, I will give you direction how you yourself shall 

 iish for him. 



Ten. Trust me, master ! I see now it is a harder matter 

 to catch a trout than a chub : for I have put on patience, 

 and followed you these two hours, and not seen a fish stir, 

 neither at your minnow nor your worm. 



Pise. Well, scholar ! you must endure worse luck some- 

 time, or you will never make a good angler. But what say 

 you now ? there is a trout now, and a good one too, if I can 



but hold him : and two or three turns more will tire him ; 

 now you see he lies still, and the sleight is to land him : 

 reach me that landing-net. So, sir, now he is mine own : 

 what say you now, is not this worth all my labour and your 

 patience ? 



Ven. On my word, master ! this is a gallant trout ; what 

 shall we do with him ? 



Pise. Marry ! e'en eat him to supper : we'll go to my 

 hostess from whence we came ; she told me, as I was going 

 out of door, that my brother Peter, a good angler and a 



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