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THE next day, towards noon, Kenelm and his visitor, walking together along the brook-side, stopped before Izaak Walton's summer-house, and, at Kenelm's suggestion, entered therein to rest, and more at their ease to continue the conversation they had begun.
As mine was sharper than ever, and I could not make it off bear, I descended from my perch that I might try and catch some fish. I quickly cut a fishing-rod, and a piece of light bark to serve as a float, and my movements being hastened by hunger, in a few minutes, having caught some creatures on the bank to serve as bait, I was bending over the stream as assiduously as old Izaak Walton himself.
The inside is more superb than the outside. Izaak Walton and Jane Austen are buried there. WINCHESTER, May 28, 1891 The White Swan. As sure as my name is Jack Copley, I saw the prettiest girl in the world to-day, an American, too, or I'm greatly mistaken. It was in the cathedral, where I have been sketching for several days.
...I have heard a grave divine say that God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. Izaak Walton. "Del, my love," said Mrs Hunt, "I feel one of my worst headaches coming on. Will you go this afternoon to see Mrs Winn, instead of me?" Delia stood under the medlar tree on the lawn, ready to go out, with a bunch of roses in her hand, and her violin-case.
"Are you a descendant of Izaak Walton?" "No. I believe there are none. But I hope I have so much of his spirit that I can do two things like him." "Tell me." "Live in the country, though I was not brought up in it; and know a good man when I see him." "I am very glad you asked me to go to-night." "If people only knew their own brothers and sisters, the kingdom of heaven would not be far off."
Children do not boggle at the unpronounceable names of a good book like "The Arabian Nights," but rather use them as charms, like Izaak Walton's marrow of the thighbone of a heron or a piece of mummy. The bullfighter speaks: "'Cavaliers and strong men, this cavalier is the friend of a friend of mine. Es mucho hombre. There is none like him in Spain.
"For my part, I was always a bungler at all kinds of sport that required either patience or adroitness, and had not angled above half an hour before I had completely 'satisfied the sentiment, and convinced myself of the truth of Izaak Walton's opinion, that angling is something like poetry, a man must be born to it.
He took Herbert to some distance from the nests, and there prepared his singular apparatus with all the care which a disciple of Izaak Walton would have used. Herbert watched the work with great interest, though rather doubting its success. The lines were made of fine creepers, fastened one to the other, of the length of fifteen or twenty feet.
Gentle George Herbert, a relative and esteemed friend, could often come from near-by Bemerton, and Izaak Walton, who was here collecting material for the "Life" of his hero, no doubt spent some happy days in contemplation of the clear waters of the Nadder.
I have just been reading a book, which I may be too partial to, as it was the delight of my childhood; but I will recommend it to you, it is Izaak Walton's "Complete Angler." All the scientific part you may omit in reading. The dialogue is very simple, full of pastoral beauties, and will charm you. Many pretty old verses are interspersed.
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