2 DOVE DALE REVISITED 



man was ever half so charming ! The lines 

 were by Hilda Johnson Wise, who died, alas ! 

 Dec. 13, 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 wit- 

 nessed 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 sur- 

 mounted 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 particular 

 event in Walton's life unless it may have been 



