iZAAK Walton's association with the river lea. 



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inhabitants had it restored, cased with stucco, and surrounded by an 

 iron raiUng. 



Over against it there stood the " sweet shady arbour which 

 Nature herself has woven with her own fine fingers — a contexture of 

 woodbines, sweetbriar, jessamine, and myrtle, and so interwoven as 



TOTTEHTbUlM MUGB QR.OSS, JQ<D>5- 

 [Frotit the "■ Gentleman s Masazine" A^ril, 1820.) 



will secure us from the sun's violent heat and from the approaching 

 shower." Tradition afhrms tliat this arbour was in the garden of 

 the " Swan Inn," and that the " Swan " was Walton's usual resting- 

 place when he came hither to fish. The "Swan" remains, but 

 there is no such arbour there now, and none of that " drink like 

 nectar," of which master and scholar partook and pronounced to be 

 " too good for anybody but an lers." 



