The Road to Dumbiedykes 



liss it entirely as you pass. Indeed, 

 ere it not for the fact that it is 

 le subject of an annual overhauling, 

 nd its interior kept in readiness for 

 uests who may not find accommoda- 

 on elsewhere upon the property — of 

 hich it is now a more or less unne- 

 2ssary part — the porches, windows, 

 3of and floors would in due course 

 ill a prey to the operation of the 

 atural laws that work unceasingly in 

 le physical world. 



With my own hands, some years 

 go, I set some of the roots that now 

 jpply leafy cover to those walls, and 

 )r this act I am sure that the spirit 

 lat dwells within is duly grateful. 



speak thus because it was long since 

 acated by once happy, frugal and 

 idustrious tenants, and possesses now 

 regular occupants. I am always 

 msible of some unseen presence in 

 ich cases. Not that I know or care 

 aything particularly about occult 

 leories, for they do not specially 



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