. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. weet-heart, said the old lady who showed the house. Shakspeare and his wife sleep in the same beautiful church amidthe bowery town of Stratford-on-Avon; and thither, rowing up theVvon almost to the churchyard, our tourists made their way. The party approached the church through an avenue of limes, andentered the richly-carved oak doors of the Gothic porch. The tombof Shakspeare is in the chancel. The Avon runs but a short distance: from the walls, and the cool boughs of the summer trees wave beforethe windows. A flat stone marks
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. weet-heart, said the old lady who showed the house. Shakspeare and his wife sleep in the same beautiful church amidthe bowery town of Stratford-on-Avon; and thither, rowing up theVvon almost to the churchyard, our tourists made their way. The party approached the church through an avenue of limes, andentered the richly-carved oak doors of the Gothic porch. The tombof Shakspeare is in the chancel. The Avon runs but a short distance: from the walls, and the cool boughs of the summer trees wave beforethe windows. A flat stone marks the place where the poet is buried,on which are inscribed the oft quoted lines said to be written by thepoet himself: — j ^ I HISTORIC LANDS. i ml. ;r Jesus sake I t l>c he that moves m\ bones. in a niche of the wall, is a bust of the port. Theiption mentions his age as fifty-three years. Returning to the birthplace, Frank Gray and Tommy Toby visitedthe Shakspeare Museum. The collection of curiosities was some*.
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