IOO DOVE DALE REVISITED 



man was ever half so charming ! The lines 

 were by Hilda Johnson Wise, who died, alas ! 

 December i3th, 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 by the artist thus : 



the first C should have been reversed thus 3. 

 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 



