IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 73 



door of the fishing-house, sold for £63. The 

 fishing-house was reproduced at the World's Fair 

 at Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 300th 

 anniversary of Walton's birthday on 9th August 

 1893. 



"THE FISHING-HOUSE 



" What spot more honoured than this peaceful place ? 

 Twice honoured, truly. Here Charles Cotton sang, 

 Hilarious — his whole-hearted songs, that rang 

 With a true note, through town and country ways. 

 While the Dove trout — in chorus— splashed their praise. 

 Here Walton sat with Cotton, in the shade, 

 And watched him dubb his flies, and doubtless made 

 The time seem short, with gossips of old days. 

 Their cyphers are enlaced above the door, 

 And in each Angler's heart, firm-set and sure. 

 While rivers run, shall those twin names endure — 



Walton and Cotton linked for evermore 



And ' Piscatoribus sacrum,' — where more fit 

 A motto, for their wisdom, worth and wit ? " 



One of Twelve Sonnets by T. Wkstwood. 



