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author seems to have been impressed with the 

 idea that Walton and Cotton had been together 

 in this house, and he gives the following fanciful 

 description of the interior of the house (as sup- 

 posed to have been seen by them in Cotton's 

 lifetime). 



" Host. Gentlemen, the door is open ! 



" Angler. This is marvellously contrived ; 

 what a delight for fishers ! all the wainscoting 

 covered with landscapes, and cheerful anglers 

 on the banks of the river, sitting in the shade 

 of rocks, or casting their flies into the stream. 



" Painter. And fishes most delicately painted 

 on the oak wainscoting. 



" Angler. Aye, spotted trouts, and graylings 

 done to the life. 



"Host. And here are the portraits of Mr. 

 Walton and Mr. Cotton, on the panels of the 

 beaufet. 



"Angler. And indeed very handsome and 

 becoming figures. 



"Host. Nor could they be more resembling; 

 there is Mr. Walton in his c sad coloured suit, 

 leaning against a rock, who is now going to bait 



Mr. John Lavecount Anderson. He afterwards published 

 a series of views of the river Dove and Beresford Hall, 

 1866, 



