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with. 1 And now that I have told you how a fly is to be 

 made, you shall presently see me make one, with which you 

 may peradventure take a trout this morning, notwith standing 

 the unlikeness of the day ; for it is now nine of the clock, 

 and fish will begin to rise, if they will rise to-day. I will 

 walk along by you, and look on : and, after dinner, I will 

 proceed in my lecture on fly-fishing. 



Fiat. I confess I long to be at the river ; and yet I could 

 sit here all day to hear you; but some of the one, and some 

 of the other, will do well : and I have a mighty ambition to 

 take a trout in your lliver Dove. 



Pise. I warrant you shall : I would not for more than I 

 will speak of, but you should, seeing I have so extolled my 

 river to you. Nay, I will keep you here a month, but you 

 shall have one good day of sport before you go. 



Viat. You will find me, I doubt, too tractable that way : 

 for, in good earnest, if business would give me leave, and 

 that, if it were fit, I could find in my heart \o stay with you 

 for ever. 



Pise. I thank you, sir, for that kind expression ; and now 

 let me look out my things to make this fly. 



1 There needs nothing more be said of these directions, than that 

 hundreds have, by means of them alone, become excellent fly-makers. H. 

 Ephemera denies this, and says that "Cotton's directions are limited to 

 making the easiest of all made flies a fly with body and wings, but with- 

 out tail, hackle-feather for legs, tinsel for tip and ribbing." Be this as 

 it may, flies of every kind are now made so well and so cheaply by the 

 dealers, that the angler will hardly lose his . time over them, Holland, 

 Ronalds, and Bainbridge, have given very full directions about flies, 

 illustrated by numerous figures ; and there is a good list in Rennie's 

 "Alphabet of Angling." For salmon-flies, "Ephemera's Book of the 

 Salmon" is one of the best. It may be as well to mention here, that 

 Mr. Ronalds prepares fly-books, which contain a good selection of flies, 

 accurately made, and arranged in the order of months, so that the angler 

 Eeed have but little enquiry to make. They are sold by Mr. Eaton of 

 Crooked Lane. ED. 



