THE THIRD DAY 



Continued.) 



CHAPTER X. 



DIRECTIONS HOW TO DRESS A TROUT AND GRAYLING. 



Pise, Oh, sir, are you returned ? You have but just pre- 

 vented me. I was coming to call you. 



Fiat. I am glad, then, I have saved you the labour. 



Pise. And how have you sped ? 



Fiat. You shall see that, sir, presently: look you, sir, 

 here are three * brace of trouts, one of them the biggest but 

 one, that ever I killed with a fly in my life ; and yet I lost 



1 Spoke like a south, countryman. WALTON. Honest Isaak seems here 

 to allude ironically to the southern habit of saying three brace instead of two 

 leash. ED. 



