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that you can raise them by your word, as they say conjurors 

 can do spirits, and afterward make them do what you bid 

 them ; for here's a trout has taken my fly. 1 I had rather 

 have lost a crown. What luck's this ! he was a lovely fish, 

 and turned up a side like a salmon ! 



Pise. O, sir, this is a war where you sometimes win, and 

 must sometimes expect to lose. Never concern yourself for 

 the Joss of your fly ; for ten to one I teach you to make a 

 better. Who's that calls ? 



Servant. Sir, will it please you to come to dinner ? 



Pise. We come. You hear, sir, we are called : and now 

 take your choice, whether you will climb this steep hill 

 before you, from the top of which you will go directly into 

 the house, or back again over these stepping-stones, and 

 about by the bridge. 



Viat. Nay, sure, the nearest way is best ; at least my 

 stomach tells me so : and I am now so well acquainted with 

 your rocks, that I fear them not. 



Pise. Come, then, follow me : and so soon as we have 

 dined, we will down again to the little house, where I will 

 begin at the place I left off about fly-fishing, and read you 

 another lecture ; for I have a great deal more to say upon 

 that subject. 



Viat. The more the better ; I could never have met with 

 a more obliging master, my first excepted ; nor such sport 

 can all the rivers about London ever afford, as is to be found 

 in this pretty river. 



Pise. You deserve to have better, both because I see you 

 are willing to take pains, and for liking this little so well ; 

 and better I hope to show you before we part. 



1 Taken in the worst sense, viz. broke away with it. H. 



