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(old pencil note 'J. Griffiths'), explaining it would ill repay D'Ewes my inviting him here for the express purpose of flogging the water, he spent the previous day taking Lord Bolingbroke round his stretch for just one trout, we are... living... hugger-mugger... without cook - almost without a chair... or a plate... from taking an empty house... I have been... completely diddled, he knows D'Ewes is rather devious & cunning in the gastronomic art, but he can offer a tough beef steak, with good liquor from his wine-merchant Mr Cries, he suggests D'Ewes try for a day's permission for two on Count Merci d'Argenteau's water, I could not do him, or his trout, any harm if I had the Arms of Briareus with fifty rods in each and as many hooks, about four years ago Col Webber Smith's party made one of their servants fish, since when the Count has become inexorable, 4 sides 8vo., 71 Rue St Germain, Huy, Belgium, 5th - 7th June