142 THE COMPLETE ANGLES, [PART I. 



So rotten planks of broken ships do change . 

 To barnacles. Oh transformation strange ! 

 'Twas first a green tree ; then, a broken hull ; 

 Lately, a mushroom ; now, a flying gull. 



Ven. my good master, this morning-walk has been 

 spent to my great pleasure and wonder : but I pray, when 

 shall I have your direction how to make artificial flies, 

 like to those that the trout loves best ; and, also, how to 

 use them ? 



Pise. My honest scholar, it is now past five of the clock : 

 we will fish till nine ; and then go to breakfast. Go you to 

 yon sycamore-tree, and hide your bottle of drink under the 

 hollow root of it ; for about that time, and in that place, we 

 will make a brave breakfast with a piece of powdered beef, 

 and a radish or two that I have in my fish-bag ; we shall, I 

 warrant you, make a good, honest, wholesome, hungry 

 breakfast. And I will, then, give you direction for the 

 making and using of your flies : and in the mean time, 

 there is your rod and line, and my advice is, that you fish 

 as you see me do, and let's try which can catch the first fish. 



Fen. I thank you, master ! I will observe and practise 

 your direction as far as I am able. 



Pise. Look you, scholar ! you see I have hold of a good 

 fish : I now see it is a trout : I pray, put that net under 

 him ; and touch not my line, for if you do, then we break 

 all. Well done, scholar ! I thank you. 



Now, for another. Trust ine, I have another bite : 

 Come, scholar, come lay down your rod, and help me to 

 land this as you did the other. 80, now, we shall be sure- 

 to have a good dish of fish for supper. 



Ven. I am glad of that : but 1 have no fortune : sure, 

 master ! yours is a better rod and better tackling. 



Pise. Nay, then, take mine ; and I will fish with yours. 

 Look you, scholar ! I have another. Come, do as you did 



was prevalent with the elder naturalists. It was supposed that on the 

 hanks of a stream in the Orcades, grew a tree which produced live geese as. 

 its fruit. In an old folio volume printed at Basle 1550, entitled Munsteri 

 Cosmographia is an amusing cut representing the barnacle goose dropping, 

 from bursting pods on the tree into the stream beneath, and swimming off. 

 A similar cut will be found in Aldrovandus, and at the end of (Jerrard's* 

 "Herbal." ED. 



