A mile west of Stratford-on-Avon is the village of Shottery. Shottery is noted today for just one thing - the cottage of Anne Hathaway. Here lived the future wife of Shakespeare. And through the same footpaths the traveler now walks, "Will" and "Anne" strolled together. In the garden beyond the hedge, are lovely old-fashioned flowers of wonderful colors. The cottage now belongs to Great Britain. It was purchased for $15,000 in 1892. But there still lives in it a descendant of the Hathaways. The building is almost exactly as it was when Richard Hathaway, Anne's father, lived here. It is a fine English farmhouse with heavy timbers and a thick thatched roof. Inside the house you are shown an old settle which stood by the Hathaway fireplace 300 years ago. You see, also, an old carved bed-

-stead and some linen sheets of the Hathaways. A bed upstairs is said to have belonged to Anne. It has a mattress of rushes on it. The place is kept much in the same way as it was in Shakespeare's day. Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway are supposed to have been married at Luddington, 2 miles away. He was then 19 and she was about 26 years of age. They had three children - Susannah, Hamnet, and Judith. Hamnet and Judith were twins. The verses from which the following lines are taken, are supposed to be Shakespeare; "To melt the sad, make blithe the gay, and nature charm, Anne hath a way, She hath a way, Anne Hathaway; To breathe delight, Anne hath a way."