196 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



' Father of Angling ' should anglers be kindly 

 inclined to present us with his statue. We 

 should set him over against his brother-in-law, 

 the good Bishop Ken, who is said to have 

 repaid Walton's loving care over him in youth 

 by penning those simple and graceful lines 

 which are over the ' aged sire's ' resting place, 

 and were reproduced in your last week's 

 Gazette. Walton lived to a great age, and 

 died in the house of his son-in-law. Dr. 

 Hawkins, who was one of the Prebendaries 

 of this Cathedral. Ken, who was also Pre- 

 bendary of Winchester, lived in a house in 

 the Close, unfortunately pulled down some 

 thirty years ago ; and there, too, Walton 

 was a frequent visitor. The garden of the 

 house stretches down to a bright little stream, 

 one of the many branches of the Itchen — in 

 which even now a trout may sometimes be 

 taken ; — and we can imagine how often the 

 old man's steps carried him to the riverside, 

 where he might meditate in his own sweet, 

 simple fashion, on the graceful creatures lying 

 under the shady bank, or darting to and fro 

 in the shallow stream. 



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