Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — A Thames Fisherman. [ARTICLE]

A Thames Fisherman.

’Cuninor Hurst rears its picturesque-1 head by-and-by on the Berkshire- banks of the river, fitting scene .for the troubles of Amy Bosbart, whose romantic life Sir Walter Scott has blend* ed with thp local history of Cumnor. “Never heard of the lady, as I know on,” said a fisherman who was trolling for pike close by; “you’d better inquire of yon "chaji oni fto bank there; he knows.” s We inquired of the chap "on the’bank’ He was “setting some night lines,‘"he said. Oh yes, he had heard tell of Kenilworth, but it was not anywhere hereabouts; he believed it was somewhere in Scotland; but it was quite true that Amy Bobsart, Countess of Leicester, was a prisoner at Cumnor Place—leastwise he had always understood so. Old King Harry the Eighth had a good deal to do with this neighborhood, he had always been told, but that was before his day, and he had quite enough to do to get a living without bothering his head about such things. So he turned to his night lines for fish, and we pulled away. His head was a rough one, and he scratched it as he talked to us. He wore an old velvet shooting coat, a pair of jack-boots, and a colored neckerchief, and as we drew away he stood up to watch us with a stolid gaze and a farewell nod, as much as to say, “If pulling a boat down stream were honest labor, you loafers would be doing something else.”— Joseph Hatton, in Harper's Magazine.