W. Shakespeare, Gardener.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 June 1910, Page 4

W. Shakespeare, Gardener.

"JSOH.X TO ULI'SII I'XSICKX.- ,, Till'] TOUT'S Iir.MIJI.I-] X A MESA KM. A,inong all the. iiaz-el-eyed Warwickshire [\,\k who stil! represent tiiat '.' happy breed of men" from which Miakespeare. so undoubtedly sprung, there is one who V'idws .the present laiilare <il I'es-tivjil in town with a quiet, unassertive pride. !t is Mr \\"i 11 : -im Shakespeare. tii -;'!t , l'.-ratt'd and iiny.iiiiii;, and. ii:!)t i'u.i in\'itc-d to til. , ree.'iit poet's (lin:ui-. Air William M!i:ik( .--p. are has. live I icr .sonie .s'.vty yeai.- , . thai, is to ;.iy. v.\\ his life -v.it inn ;i niiic or't.\.) cf Strati'ord-(in-A\ on. Jle was l>: :ii ;it Wiispiv; ton, a little village (■!•;:;•:« U) Cliarlteoie, where, it will l/j r: !iH'inbere:l, his famous nanic'.'ike s! )le the (!ie.;T. He lives now ill .:i hiunl)le libtle cofbage by the waterside. (jiie ciin hardly fail to p:\<n it as cue :;-;)es the fcolp.i.th \\\y to dear, itimiblLvlown old Wilnu'ot: , , and io the loinnhou.se of the Ardeiis, Uf w!:ich the ])oet',s mother was Imni. and wlii-h still stands, as it did ',]{) D years ago, on ithe skiir.ts of tile Forest itself. () The truth is that this Air William Shakespeare luis never m.ade any public, claim to cMiiioetion with the "'immortal -memory" for the simpit reason thai' the ide; , . ueve.r occurred to him. A waPlaner's s:m } ,;ukl himself a connt' gardener. h. j i,s content to see his flowers lilowtmi find his fruit ripen, to do his day's work, and sleep the night through. uniretHied by the. finest of fame':"do many hours, days, months an-1 yeara Passed over to 'the end they were created." Ho never even hea>nl that anybodv was looking out for Slnlawpwire,]] scions! Vet, says an English newspaper, there is no manner of doubt that this lowly cottager is a genuine, survivor of the actual "famiiv that f;ive Shake.qpe.are to the world. I!o~h.as no formal pedigree. 1,,,t ]~P ( . i]n show ialb least that for generations upon generations his equally ] O wlv 'ancestors have bomo his n',n imP ii, the villages of Lon;rbrido-e Wilmcote IWiuHnn n)K I fl ll itt,. r.sfir.lrltho last of which, one cf the trimmest a,»/l pro(iti"sf, villaws in .nil \\ iiU'flM(JvMh i re. was uno u pst.io".j>:b! y the birthnlafe of old .Tel,,, Shakespeare, the poet's father. ■S9MrSnBVBCf3RgM339k4CKWB !