396 THE COMPLETE ANGLEK. [PART II. 



one too, that must do your business. "Well said ! believe 

 me you shift your fingers very handsomely : I doubt I 

 have taken upon me to teach my master. fSo, here's your 

 dubbing now. 



Viat. This dubbing is very black. 



Pise. It appears so in hand, but step to the door and 

 hold it up betwixt your eye and the sun, and it will appear 

 a shining red : let me tell you, never a man in England can 

 discern the true colour of a dubbing any way but that ; and 

 therefore choose always to make your flies on such a bright 

 sunshine day as this, which also you may the better do, 

 because it is worth nothing to fish in. Here, put it on; 

 and be sure to make the body of your fly as slender as you 

 can. Very good ! Upon my word you have made a mar- 

 vellous handsome fly. 



Viat. I am very glad to hear it ; 'tis the first that ever I 

 made of this kind in my life. 



Pise. Away, away ! You are a doctor at it : but I will 

 not commend you too much, lest I make you proud. Come, 

 put it on, and you shall now go downward to some streams 

 betwixt the rocks below the little foot-bridge you see there, 

 and try your fortune. Take heed of slipping into the water 

 as you follow me under this rock. 1 So, now you are over, 

 and now throw in. 



Viat. This is a fine stream indeed ! There's one ! I 

 have him. 



Pise. And a precious catch you have of him ; pull him 

 out ! I see you have a tender hand. This is a diminutive 

 gentleman, e'en throw him in again, and let him grow till 

 he be more worthy your anger. 



Viat. Pardon me, sir, all's fish that comes to the hook 

 with me now. Another ! 



Pise. And of the same standing. 



Viat. I see I shall have good sport now. Another ! and 

 a grayling. Why you have fish here at will. 



1 Mr. Bagster, who visited the spot in the autumn of 1814, for the pur- 

 pose of identifying the scenery, and who went step by step over the ground 

 which is the scene of this dialogue, says that ' ' the undeviating accuracy of 

 delineation is very striking ; but at this spot an alteration was made a few 

 years since, by cutting away part of the rock and removing the bridge, 

 the site of which is still marked by fragments of stone." ELLIS. 



