Stories · By the Water

The Riverside Inn and the Evening Song

12 min · Field and river · Comfort · Company

At a small inn beside a slow river, an old angler who long ago traded ambition for the water’s rhythm spends an unhurried evening fishing, sharing tea and melon, and singing with a cheerful countryman and a few gathered friends, discovering again that enough is a feast, and that the deepest happiness asks nothing rare of us.

Retold from The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton.

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Story 1 of By the Water, starting at 1:28.