Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-05
Wakema3's WaDderi79s.
ODD INCIDENTS OF FoEEroN TRAVEL AND
... OBSERVATION.

iordshirc ~ Broxbournc Ware ana HAT
field, and from Totenham la4ilY and
SHINY flows down through east London
under Lea bridge, is split into BLACK
lagoons in the foul Hackney marshes
and becomes muddy stream again As u
passes between Queen Matldas bridge
and the noted bridge Of Sraiord'le'
Bow, the ancient way into Essex. Then,
a mere open channel Of London sewage
Il forms the various basins OF the Lea
Cut, Limehouso Cut aud Limehousc
Basin Of Regents Canal; and trailing to
the west Of Stafford and Barking
marshes, the Understanding factory spot
on the earihs surface, enters the
Thames through the noisome delta
forming the Isle Of Dogs.
In Walion's time all this region was
country. II is one OF the most unplcas'
ant experience YOU can nov know in
London to follow the Lea from East
India dock to I0ucnham. The latter
Is even now a part of London, and one
can only with difficulty see the way the
gentle angler came and as dimly Imagine
the Iottenham OF old, rs then smart
Elizabcthan habilaiions, and It's High
Cross where the characters IN the
angler" first met, and pscaior, on his
way to fish thsLea at Ware that Zine,
fresh May morning, makes the pleasant
acquaintance Of Nunator aud Auccps.
The White Swan Inn al Totcnham was
the place where Walton tdrfied going 20
and coming from the river Lea. The
last time saw TO- u was half hidden
from the High Road and High Cross, q
tiny siumbcfous hostel Of the long ago,
white succeed anu gabled, with a patch
OF garden blossom at It's side and q bit
OF skittle alley behind.
Just north Of Tolienham Is Bleak
Hall. at sleepy hamlet called Cooks
Ferry, to which piscator led bis com.
paniuns Of the Angler" Waltun's
own picture OF the inn Is plcasanter
one than can now be drawn; "nn honest
alehouse, where might be found clean
~ room, lavender in the windows, and
twenty ballads stuck about the walls.
with a hostess both clelniy aud hand.
some and civil" Il was here, over the
eating OF the tooihsomc club. that
Nenator insisted upon tctming Walton,
as Piscator, master" Shortly beyond
this the Lea winds pleasantly near
Edmonton where jonn Gilpin, from the
indecorous speed Of his horse, missed
comfortable dinner; and nj Hoddesdon
abovei was the "Ghatcht House" where.
at the very outset OF the Anglers
pleasant experiences, Nenator expressed
his purpose OF drinking bis morning
draught." From Touenhlm to Ware
is a pleasant, vdgrant jlunt, but the
lover OF Walton must needs carry the
good old fisherman along with HIM IN
the sweet cradle Of his fancy Tor all but
the merest suggestion OF oompanlonship
identification M these FIRST aud Oldest
angling haunts along the river Lea.
Undoubtedly Dove Dale, the water.
way OF the yagaruus and impemous
river Dove, forming the boundary be
tween Derbyshire and Staiiurdshifc In
the romantic region OF the Derby Peak,
retains least changed the natural scenes
most loved OF lzaak Walton. rs here
his summer months for yean were
passed. In an almost idyllic enjoyment
uf bis lavorit1 pasiime, and in a friend.
ship with Cotton Of so perfect q nature
That il At least exalted an Otherwise
chamclorless man OF no little talent to
nobler aspirations and accomplis
Every one IS familiar with this strange
and unequal attachment; how Wall ~,
almost sanity IN character and foty four
Yeas the elder OF the bhrSc spendthriit
and scnbbler of unreliable themes,
became his friend and companion Ia
Bercsllrd Hall; how Cotton built the
famous Fishing. House beside the
Dove, with It's intcrtwined escutcheon OF
his own and Walion's initials and the
motto, "Pscatoribus Slcrum," above
the door how their affection npcned
until Cotton adopted Walton as his
father aud Walton the spendthriG
gentleman as his son." and now II all
had a good ending when, at WIlton's
request, Cotton accomplished the best
work OF his life In part second OF the
'AuglgJ' Being Instructions How To
Angle For A Trout Or Grayling In A
Clear Stream" preiaccd by "The Retire.
mcnt." or Stances luegulien to Mr..
lzaak Walton OF much poetic power,
beginning with the lines,
Farewell thou busy world, and may
We never meet againl
! always love to imagine this odd
friendship not to have been an "unac-
countahle" natter but an affinity OF
oppOsiles beginning away back there as
Walton stretched his legs up Touen.
ham hIl and first met the hayward,
ill.direcled. though undoubtedly appre.
cialivg aud sympathetic, Cotton as none
other than Nenator who, from the
in.linctlye Difference to a great soul
which made the word master" uncon-
sciou5Iy burst from his lips, came by
degrees of betterment, grateful love and
reverence, to know the gentle fangler
who had saved him from himself as a
Gather In the highest and purest spid,
tual sense The whole romantic valley
Is redolcut Of legend and memory OF
Cotton and Walton. The ancient Beres-
ford Hall Is changed, but the walton
Room Is intact. The bowlIng-green
beside the Dove is as It was nearly a
quarter ol thousand years ago; and
the old stone "Fishing-House," now
more than 200 years old, still stands in
the mumuruus dale, one Of the tmest
monuments In England to a strange but
scathless friendship.