III. 

 OUR WINGED HOUSE-FELLOWS. 



WE have been sitting this afternoon in the 

 Big Drawing-room, enjoying the view from 

 its extensive windows. It is a spacious 

 apartment for so small a house about three 

 acres large, with windows that open all round 

 over miles of moorland. The carpet has a 

 groundwork of fallen pine-needles and green 

 grass and bracken, irregularly threaded with 

 a tiny pattern of brocaded flowers yellow 

 tormentil, white bedstraw, golden stonecrop, 

 red sheep-sorrel ; while by way of roof the 

 room is covered by a fretted ceiling of inter- 

 lacing fir-branches, through which one can 

 catch at frequent intervals deep glimpses of 

 a high and bright blue dome that overarches 



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