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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THIRD DAY. HALIEUS?POIETES?ORNITHER ? PHYSICUS. Morning. Hal. ? You will soon take your leave, gentlemen, of this agreeable villa, but we must catch at least two brace of trout, to carry with us to London as a present for two worthy patrons of the angle. For though I know our liberal host will have a...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THIRD DAY. HALIEUS?POIETES?ORNITHER ? PHYSICUS. Morning. Hal. ? You will soon take your leave, gentlemen, of this agreeable villa, but we must catch at least two brace of trout, to carry with us to London as a present for two worthy patrons of the angle. For though I know our liberal host will have a basket of fish packed up for each of our party, yet fish taken this'morning will be imagined a more acceptable present than those caught yesterday. The May-fly is already upon the water, though not in great quantity, and it will consequently be more easy to catch the fish, which I see are rising with great activity. I advise you to go to the deep water below, where you will find the largest fish, and I will soon follow you. Poiet. ?I hope I shall catch a large fish, ? a companion to that which Ornither took yesterday with a natural fly. Halieus leaves them Jishing, and returns to the house, but soon comes back and joins his companions, whom he Jinds Jishing below in the river.'] Hal.? Well, gentlemen, what sport? Poiet. ? The fish are rising every where; but though we have been throwing. over them with all our skill for a quarter of an hour, yet not a single one will take, and I am afraid we shall return to breakfast without our prey. Hal. ? I will try; but I shall go to the other side, where I see a very large fish rising. There ? I have him at the very first throw. Land this fish, and put him into the well. Now I have another; and I have no doubt I could take half a dozen in this very place, where you have been so long fishing without success. Phys.?You must have a different fly; or have you some unguent or charm to tempt the fish? Hal.?No such thing. If any of you will give me your rod and fly, I will answer for it I shall have the same success. I ...