Anecdotes-An Evening Walk on Good Friday by the side of the Herefordshire A Comic and a Tragic Story-Chub- Fishing-A Visit to Dorstone and the Fishing in a Wye Preserve-Fingerling Fishing-At the Three Cocks-Start for a lovely trout and grayling River; Bright Sketch of the Lea from its Source to its Mouth-Izaak Walton at "Thatcht- House" and Hoddesdon-Dr. Johnson at Luton Hoo-Panshanger Oak-Bleak Hall-Pollution of the River-Our Day's IX. FISHING IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. Grand Review at Spithead-Caris- brooke Fishing Association-Abundance 105 122 ILLUSTRATIONS WALTON AND COTTON FISHING HOUSE, BERESFORD DALE Frontispiece BADGE-DUM CAPIMUS CAPIMUR. on title-page THE IZAAK WALTON HOTEL, DOVE DALE to face ILAM, FROM THE LODGE GATES (THORPE CLOUD IN THE DISTANCE) .... ABOVE THE STEPPING STONES, DOVE DALE PAGE 2 6 (THE IRON GATE) ENTRANCE TO PARADISE, ILAM CROSS AND FOUNTAIN, ILAM . ENTRANCE TO Dove Dale, Derbyshire. WOLFSCOTE BRIDGE AND FRANKLIN ROCK, LEINTWARDINE BRIDGE, ON THE TEME WARE, HERTS. THE SCOURING OF THE WHITE HORSE (2 pp.) 56, 57 113 CHADSWELL SPRING AS IT APPEARED IN 1844. NOTE.-Some of the Lea and Dove illustrations are reproduced from the Lea and Dove (100th) edition of "The Complete Angler." Those on the Lea were taken by Dr. P. H. Emerson, and those on the Dove by Mr. G. N. Bankart. 66 CHAPTER I FROM THE IZAAK WALTON TO THE WALTON AND COTTON FISHING HOUSE, BERESFORD DALE "Grey sky, green trees, a shadowed stream, A rod, a reel, a book of flies, A dozen pleasant memories. "A homeward trudge thro' mist-wrapt night, HESE lines, very aptly sent to me by a friend, appropriately head and represent the experiences I am now about to put on record. On asking my fair correspondent who Mr. H. J. Wise is, or was, she replied: "No mere B man was ever half so charming! The lines were by Hilda Johnson Wise, who died, alas! Dec. 13, 1899." The nineteenth century was in the youth of its old age, and had yet much of its work to do, and many have been the "choppings and changings in this mortal life" which it has witnessed since last I visited Dove Dale and "The Izaak Walton," in the summer of 1884, eighteen years ago and more. Outwardly the old inn has experienced no change at all. The old handsome gateway, with its stone pillars surmounted by the Walton and Cotton cipher, is just as it was. The cipher is wrongly drawn the first C should have been reversed thus-Ɔ. The cipher is evidently taken from that on the Fishing House in Beresford Dale, but the artist forgot to reverse the C, and he seems also to have trusted to his memory for the date 1666, which has no reference to any particular event in Walton's life unless it may have been |