102 DOVE DALE REVISITED 



appropriately quoted on his prospectus Dr. 

 Johnson's reply to Boswell : 



"No, sir, there is nothing which has yet 

 been contrived by man by which so much 

 happiness is produced as by a good tavern 



In all these things time has wrought no 

 change, nor has the interior of the house 

 undergone any material alteration, except that 

 as regards its accommodation it has moved 

 prudently with the times, still preserving much 

 of its ancient simplicity. 



Looking up to it from the Manifold meadows 

 on a bright afternoon it presents a most charm- 

 ing and restful picture to the eye, backed up as 

 it is by the imposing green hill called Bunster. 

 On its eastern side it looks down upon the 

 green meadows which descend by a steep 

 grade to the winding river Dove, and beyond 

 it looks up to and smiles on the most pic- 

 turesque of hills called Thorpe Cloud. The 

 everlasting hills are the same, the old rivers 

 Dove and Manifold are just as they were 

 eighteen years ago. " The Izaak Walton " 

 has the same familiar look ; and may the 



