. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. Welcombe Anne Hathaways Cottage. CHAPTER VIII. SHOTTEEY. If there be one place more interesting than another inconnection with Shakspere, it is the little hamlet ofShottery, for here he found his wife. It lies but a fewfields length from Stratford—one of the prettiest of Eng-lish villages. Very lovely is it always in April—in thewinter of the blackthorn/5 as the Warwickshire country- SHOTTERY. 71 people call the season. It consists of but a few cottagesand farm-houses, straggling here and there, with their gar-dens full of flowers. Th
. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. Welcombe Anne Hathaways Cottage. CHAPTER VIII. SHOTTEEY. If there be one place more interesting than another inconnection with Shakspere, it is the little hamlet ofShottery, for here he found his wife. It lies but a fewfields length from Stratford—one of the prettiest of Eng-lish villages. Very lovely is it always in April—in thewinter of the blackthorn/5 as the Warwickshire country- SHOTTERY. 71 people call the season. It consists of but a few cottagesand farm-houses, straggling here and there, with their gar-dens full of flowers. The white snowdrops, and the crocusesthat had fringed the beds with a border of flame, are allgone, though a few daffodils still remain; but the oxlips,and the primroses, and the jonquil on its slender rush,are shining bright, whilst the turks-cap lilies, and thetulips, and the columbines, are all springing tip, coveringthe earth with their green leaves, and the apple-trees arejust opening their pink rose-buds, and the pears and thecherry-trees are covered with
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