. The compleat angler. Fishing. CHAPTER X. ISC. Oh, sir, are you returned ? you have but just prevented me. I was coming to call you. ViAT. I am glad then I have saved you the labour. Pisc. VlAT. you, sir. And how have you sped .'' You shall see that, sir, presently ; look 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 a bigger than that, with my fly to boot ; and here are three graylings, and one of them longer by some inches than that I took yesterday, and yet I thought that a good one, too. Pisc. Why you have made a
. The compleat angler. Fishing. CHAPTER X. ISC. Oh, sir, are you returned ? you have but just prevented me. I was coming to call you. ViAT. I am glad then I have saved you the labour. Pisc. VlAT. you, sir. And how have you sped .'' You shall see that, sir, presently ; look 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 a bigger than that, with my fly to boot ; and here are three graylings, and one of them longer by some inches than that I took yesterday, and yet I thought that a good one, too. Pisc. Why you have made a pretty good morning's work on't ; and now, sir, what think you of our river Dove ? ViAT. 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. 345 ^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687; Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947 ed. London ; New York : John Lane
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