Identifier: londonnorthweste00eyre (find matches)
Title: The London & North-Western Railway
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Eyre-Todd, George, 1862-1937
Subjects: London and North-Western Railway Railroads -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e and the Penk, Walton plied his pleasant craft. The Izaak Walton Inn there commemorates the association of the famous angler with the region, and, not far away, Charles Cottons Fishing - House by the waterside keeps memories both of Walton himself and of the friend who built it, and who added a treatise on fly-fishing to the later editions of The Compleat Angler.: In Alstonefield Church there, near Alsop-en-le-Dale, maybe seen the great pew erected by Cotton, and one may picture the old angler accompanying his friend thither on a Sunday morning, when perforce their rods were laid aside. The Compleat Angler has long been obsolete as a handbook for fishers. The art has been greatly improved upon since those days. Dovedale. But the book written amid these pleasant scenes still lives in English literature for its poetry and pastoral freshness, its simple charm of style, and the pure, peaceful,and pious spirit which is breathed from its quaint old pages. It is pleasant to think of the life of this father of
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London and North-Western Railway English angling, peacefully led in that most stormytime. The thunder and crash of Cromwells wars passed harmlessly over his head. The dire battles of Naseby and Rowton Moor, and the fall of King Charles I. himself, were no more than echoes in the distance to him. Cromwell and his Ironsides passed away, and the Restoration took place, with the gay doings of the Merry Monarch; and still the famous angler fished on. While glorious John Dryden was dominating the coffee-houses, and eating his heart outwith the intrigues of rivals and the Court, and with public neglect, Walton was spending his quiet days by the Sowe and the Penk, and in the delightful nooks of lovely Dovedale. And at last he died, at peace with all men, and at the great age of ninety, and was buried,as befitted so English a soul, in the Cathedral of Winchester, the ancient capital of Alfred the Great. CHAPTER V THE STARS AND STRIPES THE beginnings of great things are always interesting,especially if they

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