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fishing-rod and tackle, for though age pre- 

 vented him from visiting his friend Cotton 

 in Dovedale, yet in fine weather he would 

 stroll down the glebe meadows where the 

 bee-orchis grows and try his hand at ' catching 

 trouts ' in ' the swift, shallow, clear, pleasant 

 brook ' of the Meon. 



"John Vaughan." 



The last discovery, and not the least interesting, 

 is that Izaak Walton, in addition to his farm 

 near Stafford, held the lease of a farm of nearly 

 one thousand acres at Northington, not many miles 

 from Winchester. The full account of this dis- 

 covery, which was made by that great admirer of 

 Walton and keen angler Mr. G. A. B. Dewar, will 

 be found in his edition of " The Compleat Angler " 

 in two volumes published in 1902. 



" When I first paid attention to the matter," 

 says Mr. Dewar, "it occurred to me that the 

 ' Norington farme ' of Walton's time might be 

 the Northington farm of to-day — close by the 

 village of Northington, which is not many 

 miles from Winchester, near the stream that 

 comes down the valley of the Candovers, and 

 flowing through Grange Park joins the other 

 branch of the Itchen by Itchen Stoke. I 



