SPECIAL ARTICLE. SCENERY AND DRAMA.
«U Bflrl 7 the !«*'. ftDd °,• ti7 * P S M and v,ng 5» •* "1,, it, I for s< i *' d f™ to the of Si's -J- from *: * otitis the *oods 3 ° Tltf St. AlbaiiS there of the wall BtdndS#tfrXffields, but ?o au &?*« thftii rtow ' #*A.« they JSerfofiflea, tlor the acres 3* f*» iJEdbs oH ether side. had foweci •"** Whereref I was ejvtw* i -i ke f d °° s «emed about four feet * Ttisin most places buried, «TJ i* as remained, in the gftffKi the fosse Hero it "Jffi foundations of the wall \£L&. Probably none of what originally above tne l&iirkßOd wild Md haunting ffiSfSllt would be hard to SSfitt folldwing tiWfbtee l&fitf fancied yourself m an fS£i3 welMgh impenetrable Kita y»Ur keen attention to fffiiTSraited you from discoverWSS«m widthj which the Hiflto trees and the thickness 'reiltamth likewise, forbade Lsited- And yot.tho fosse SSm tberefort tho whole fiTrffikr than thirty or forty WmlS y'oU will gather, what '{Kg 41fcti It is, tHouto now in depth. Or the fosse, the HiTfNßatfiah Willi, how greats ?3ia»Dflth«f in affecting an SSfiTtf *bst was Britain once. 53 #« forest, if so I rnn.y wSMffii through its gloom'aild AisM awitilflte, concealment i.f TSStorld I hat! just left. It SffTfa* »nn«fc fividlv that Gassijpptea' built his fortress here filkri (g 4 euch a forest, the nnijMMpttaty of this, as tho BluTwttnj Wont to. do. pi'msaitifef world now where ifefcttitud of my own, save an MM tei cW, * aJ old boot, on 9P&ittd to' stumble, Which tail » M ifiore iiidongruouS gift tta ihs lldmjlri stoiieg yet *»* Andjet I would sit sdrfte'oM'ttaM ai tho fosse, and ueMlta « w World only and not. IMtt tou» Appear to me a pain-
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 22 October 1927, Page 13
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