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Brailsford Well. 



THE FIRST DAY. 

 CHAPTER I. 



CONFEERNCE BETWEEN A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN PROFICIENT IN FLY-FISHING, 



AND A TRAVELLER WHO BECOMES HIS PUPIL. 



PISCATOR JUNIOR, AND VIATOR. 



Pise. 



OU are happily overtaken, sir : may 

 a man be so bold as to enquire how 

 far you travel this way ? 



Viat. Yes, sure, sir, very freely ; 

 though it be a question I cannot 

 very well resolve you, as not know- 

 ing myself how far it is to Ashbourn, 

 where I intend to-night to take up 

 my inn. 



Pise. "Why then, sir, seeing I 

 perceive you to be a stranger in these 

 parts, I shall take upon me to inform 

 you, that from the town you last came through, called Brels- 



1 The contents to the chapters of this Second Part were first added by 

 the editor of the seventh edition (Bayster, 1808), who also supplied the 



