Over the grave, in a niche of the wall, is a bust of the poet. The inscription mentions his age as fifty-three years.
ANNE HATHAWAY’S COTTAGE.
Returning to the birthplace, Frank Gray and Tommy Toby visited the Shakspeare Museum. The collection of curiosities was somewhat comical,—such for example as a phial containing juice from mulberries gathered from Shakspeare’s mulberry-tree; Shakspeare’s jug, from which Garrick sipped wine at the Jubilee in 1769. Frank seemed to enjoy the specimens, his mind poetically associating them with bygone scenes.
RUINS OF KENILWORTH CASTLE.