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a bigger than that, with my fly to boot : and here are three 



faylings, and one of them longer by some inches than that 

 book yesterday, and yet I thought that a good one too. 



Pise. Why you have made a pretty good morning's work 

 on't ; and now, sir, what think you of our river Dove ? 



Fiat. I think it to be the best trout-river in England ; 

 and am so far in love with it, that if it were mine, and that 

 I could keep it to myself, I would not exchange that 

 water for all the land it runs over, to be totally debarred 

 from it. 



Pise. That compliment to the river, speaks you a true 

 lover of the art of angling : and now, sir, to make part of 

 amends for sending you so uncivilly out alone this morning, 

 I will myself dress you this dish of fish for your dinner ; 

 walk but into the parlour, you will find one book or other 

 in the window to entertain you the while ; and you shall 

 have it presently. 



Fiat. Well, sir, I obey you. 



Pise. Look you, sir ! have I not made haste ? 



Fiat. Believe me, sir, that you have ; and it looks so well, 

 I long to be at it. 



Pise. Fall to then. Now, sir, what say you, am I a 

 tolerable cook or no ? 



Fiat. So good a one, that I did never eat so good fish in 

 my life. This fish is infinitely better than any I ever tasted 

 of the kind in my life. 'Tis quite another thing than our 

 trouts about London. 



Pise. You would say so, if that trout you eat of were in 

 right season : but pray eat of the grayling, which, upon my 

 word, at this time, is by much the better fish. 



Fiat. In earnest, and so it is. And I have one request to 

 make to you, which is, that as you have taught me to catch 

 trout and grayling, you will now teach me how to dress 

 them as these are dressed ; which, questionless, is of all 

 other the best way. 



Pise. That I will, sir, with all my heart ; and am glad you 

 like them so well, as to make that request. And they are 

 dressed thus : 



