Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-10-05
MISS FISK'S LETTER.
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sail on the river and reported it very
fine. We saw the funny matched
roofs and visited the cottage of
Shakespeare's wife of whom he wrote
Ann Hathaway,
She hath a way" etc,
They take pride in keeping the cot
tage. Thursday, June Is, we visit
ed the Trinity church where Shake
speare was buried. The inscrip ton
over the grave is this,
Blessed is the man who spares
these stones,
And cursed be ne that moves my
bones"
Coming into the yard, we were
shown the stone seat where Long
fellow wrote the poem which he
dedicated to Shakespeare. We sat
upon the seat and looked at the beau
tiful river flowing close by, and felt
as if we should not care to write a
long poem or even a letter while
occupying so hard a seat.
In the center Of the city is a monu-
ment. 1t was the Gift of an Ameri-
can, Geo. w. Childs of Philadelphia,
and was presented in the Jubilee
year of Queen Victoria. There were
granite drinking trougbs for horses,
and small ones low down for dogs.
There we've many inscriptions, one Of
which was,
Honest water, which nee: left
man in the mire.
From here we went to Warwick.
passing Lovers Lane. where Shake
speare used to go when he visited Ann
Hathaway and arriving at Warwick,
we visited the castle, seeing several
pictures by Rubens and Van Dyck.
We were not taken through the long
living rooms Of til, family. bat saw
the large roou5 occupied when there
IS company. Hero Woip pictures OF
Charles lEt. Charles 2rl, often called
"Merrv CAari;e,' and Of Cromwell.
We s.w Caesars tower ana . wonder
full vase, of enormous size which was
found at the bottom o. LAKE. Here
we saw the peacCcks. and were SO
sorry that we had nothing with W hicb
to feed them. They came close to u-,
looking very eEpectant. As we
crossed the river Avon. we saw a
pair Of ducks, white as the driven
snow, on one side Of the bridge, and
a pair of coal black ones on the other
side. Walking along to another
bridge, we saw large fishes jumping
over each other in the water. They
were so thick it did not seem as if
there was room for them. 1t surely
looked as If they were crowded so
close, they had to jump.
Here also, We saw the curious trees,
cedars Of Lebanon, planted BY the
crusaders, the guide told us.
June Is found US in the old, histor-
ic city Of Oxford. We visited the
various colleges, saw the carving rep
resenting the OK crossing the ford
and at the Hartford we saw the carv-
ing of the hart drinking at the ford.
We saw the tower with five orders of
architecture, Tuscan, Doric. Ionic.
Corinthian and composite. We saw
the oldest existing university in Ok
ford. Merton college. built in 1864 and
saw many beautiful decorations by
Tintoretto.
In my notes l found next-'Ir
London. June q. So you can think
our minds were dazed by sight seeing
so rapidly. There was a procession
of sutfragette5 the afternoon of our
arrival, and most of our party went
out to see or join it. l did not go out,
but rested AMI wrote, and saved my
strength for the next sight-se eng
Those who went reported quiet
orderly, Intellectual looking crowd OF
women, accompanied by bands which
discOursed fine music. Lord Lyttor
addressed one of the overflow meet
ings. The collections were large
amounting to thousands Of pounds.
That the press had misrepresenteC
these people heretofore, we could nOt
doubt.
Sabbath morning some of US w ut to
hear the Rev. Campbell Morgan, anC
were richly repaid. We had just a
handshake with the great preacher
afterward. On Monday, we visited
Westminster Abbey; one OF our mum
Der had flower TO lay at Longfellow'E
statue. 1t would take q week anC
cover the whole Monitor for weeks
if one should write any full descrip.
tion of The wonders we saw here. L
/ RICH tly recall, we were shown the
ancient manuscript of the Westmin
ster Catechism which has held 81
large a place in building strong Chris
tian character, the benefits of which
we are reaping to this day. We spen
a little more time in London than il
most cities, and saw the same thing!
which others before US have seen anC
written about so often. We had timt
for little more looking about by our
selves, and for bit Of shopping. On
thing l will mention. If we had
bundle to take away the merchan
tied it with a loop so we could slip i
on over the hand and carry it on tn
arm. AS we went from store to store
and had a half dozen such little pack
ages, it was much easier to carr,
them, than to try and grasp them il
the hand. Two of our number man
aged to get entrance into the House O
Lords and were very much amused a
the high silk hats and the wigs. The
listened to a few short speeches, an
it was all over so soon that they wor
dered what it really amounted tC
They reported that it took DOC
electric lamps to light the Houses c
Parliament and they were but diml
lighted at that.
Of course we rode across Londo
bridge and went into the Towe
which is reached by long flight
winding stone steps. was so tire
and out Of breath when l reached tt
chamber, that said should not thin