PRACTICAL FLY FISHING 



seems at his feet. Many tender associations 

 haunt the ground, but no stone in the church- 

 yard bears a name more worthy to be read 

 with affection and respect. 



Three younger sisters survived Mr. Beever, 

 Miss Anne having died in 1858, and Mr. Henry 

 in 1840. Of the survivors, Miss Susanna is 

 now left alone to represent a family connected 

 for so many years with Coniston at once 

 sources and loadstones of all good to the 

 village in which they had their home, and to 

 all loving people who cared for the village and 

 its vale and secluded lake, and whatever re- 

 mained in them or around of the former peace, 

 beauty, and pride of English Shepherd Land.' 1 



W. G. C. 



CONISTON, 



New Year 1893. 



1 Ruskin : Preface to Hortus Inclusus. 



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