398 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART II. 



tie Dialogue:'] but tie plea- spoke of : and 'tis prettily con- 

 J^ffiriTS; trivl. Ha. my master Walton 



tannot unless Sir Philip CVCr DCCn DC1C to SCC it; IOI it 

 Sidney, or Mr. Cottons fa- sCCmS HCW built * ? 



?/,*""' ^"' "'"'" p " c * Yes ' he saw i<; cut in 



the stone before it was set up, but 

 never in the posture it now stands : for the house was but 

 building when he was last here, and not raised so high 

 as the arch of the door. And I am afraid he will not see 

 it, yet ; for he has lately writ me word, he doubts his 

 coming down this summer ; which, I do assure you, was 

 the worst news he could possibly have sent me. 



Viat. Men must sometimes mind their affairs to 

 make more room for their pleasures. And 'tis odds 

 he is as much displeased with the business that keeps 

 him from you, as you are that he comes not. But 

 I am the most pleased with this little house, of any 



* I have been favoured with an accurate description of thii fishing- 

 house, by a perton, who, being in that country with a view to oblige 

 me, went to see it. The account he gives of it, is, That it is of stone; 

 and the room on the inside, a cube of about fifteen feet, that it is paved 

 with black and white marble ; in the middle is a square black marble 

 table, supported by two stone feet. The room is wainscoted, with curi- 

 ous moldings that divide the panels up to the cieling : in the larger panels, 

 are represented in painting some of the most pleasant of the adjacent 

 scenes, with persons fishing; and in the smaller, the various sorts of tackle 

 and implements used in angling. In the further corner, on the left, is a 

 fire-place with a chimney ; and on the right, a large beaufet with folding 

 doors, whereon are the portraits of Mr. Cotton, with a boy-servant ; and 

 Walton; in the dress of the time. Underneath is a cup-boar J; on the 

 door whereof, the figures of a Trout, and of a Grayling, are well pour- 

 trayed. The edifice is at this time (1784) in but indifferent condition; 

 the paintings, and even the wainscoting, in many places, being much 

 decayed. Hawkins. 



The wood-cut, ivhicb in tie last tlree editions, ivas brought in, 

 f>ere, as some amends for the acknowledged inaccuracy of Smith's 

 vieiv of the Fishing-bouse, -is no-w rendered unnecessary ; as both 

 Smith's views , that already ad-vtrttd to, and that of Pike Pod, 

 fivi place, in this edition, to netu and sorrett views engraved 6y 

 Audinet after a finished drawing and masterly painting of the 

 etlebratei artist^ Mr. Samuel. 



