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"Wully Shaxper a great man?" said he. "Why, a's name be cut on the old beech-tree up Snitterfield lane, where's uncle Henry Shaxper lives, an' 'tis but poorly done. I could do better wi' my own whittle." "Ay, Hodge," cried Nick; "and that's about all thou canst do. Dost think that a man's greatness hangs on so little a thing as his sleight of hand at cutting his name on a tree?"
There is a pedler haunting the sheep-shearing festivals of the neighborhood. The women have sent for him to bring his pack to Snitterfield, and Dad bids Will choose a pair of scented gloves for Mother and be quick; they must be off for Stratford before the noon. Dad seems short and curt. Grandfather, his broad, florid face upturned to Dad astride Robin, shakes his hoary head.
On his father's side he belonged to a good yeoman stock, though his descent cannot be certainly traced beyond his grandfather, a Richard S., settled at Snitterfield, near Stratford. His f., John S., appears to have been a man of intelligence and energy, who set up in Stratford as a dealer in all kinds of agricultural produce, to which he added the trade of a glover.
'Elizabeth Buggins, Licensed to sell Poultry, was my name and title when I met Mr. Bobby." "I'm sorry, but 'Buggins Cottage' is still more impossible than 'Bobby Cottage. Now here's another idea: where were you born, Mrs. Bobby?" "In Snitterfield, thank you, miss." "Dear, dear! how unserviceable!" "Thank you, miss." "Where was Mr. Bobby born?" "He never mentioned, miss."
In one he learned to know the natural man in his natural environment; in the other, the social, the artificial man in the most unnatural of surroundings. His father, John Shakespeare, was a farmer's son from the neighboring village of Snitterfield, who came to Stratford about 1551, and began to prosper as a trader in corn, meat, leather, and other agricultural products.
He should leave the railway and walk in from Warwick, find quiet lodgings, of which there is no lack, in the town, and visit in turn the highways and by-ways of Stratford, Snitterfield, Wilmcote, Aston Clinton, Shottery, Wotten Wawens, Charlecote, and a dozen other points of interest, of which he will learn when he has definitely left the ranks of excursionists and has made friends among the people of Shakespeare's countryside.
Fifty years had passed since he left Snitterfield for Stratford, to venture into several business undertakings with temporary success, and achieve municipal honours for a few years. His decline had been more rapid than his rise, and, but for his son's success, his ending had been less peaceful.
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