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inhabitants had it restored, cased with stucco, and surrounded by an
iron railing.
Over against it there stood the "sweet shady arbour which
Nature herself has woven with her own fine fingers—a contexture of
woodbines, sweetbriar, jessamine, and myrtle, and so interwoven as
TOTTENHAM HUGH CROSS. 1805.
(From the "Gentleman's Magazine" April, 1820.)
will secure us from the sun's violent heat and from the approaching
shower." Tradition affirms that this arbour was in the garden of
the "Swan Inn," and that the "Swan" was Walton's usual resting-
place when he came hither to fish. The "Swan" remains, but
there is no such arbour there now, and none of that "drink like
nectar," of which master and scholar partook and pronounced to be
"too good for anybody but anglers."