COTTAGE TO LET 'It wasn't just that the place was
runnin' with damp,' I heard the gossip say, 'but when they opened the cupboards the mould and cobwebs wafted about like ghosts. Nobody wouldn't've kept a dog in it, an' that place at the back! Modern conven- iences You couldn't get through the door without knockin' your brains out an' when you did, you was up to your ankles in mud. Of course, they wasn't askin' the earth for it. They was always round there in case it fell down. It would've been condemned sure as fate only the ceilin' sagged and somethin' happened to one of the walls so the door wouldn't shut right. After that they gave up tryin' to make a good thing out of it.' Heads were being shaken as I passed, failing to discover where this ancient dwelling stood or who had been so disappointed in their efforts to remedy or exploit the housing shortage. It is an old story, this one of the country cottage with mod. cons.
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