I am not wanting to buy a house, but someone
I know is. He heard of one the other day. It was portrayed to him with all that peculiar verbal felicity of which house-agents are acknowledged masters. The price was fantastic, but prices are sometimes symbolic, so the matter was pursued a little farther. It then appeared (a) that the house was built on a spring, (b) that an attempt had been made to conduct the water away by a pipe, (c) that there had nevertheless been a serious subsidence of the foundations, and (d) that it would cost about £r,000 to put wrong right. That it would be very difficult to get the work done, that the £I,000 estimate was a minimum, and that no guarantee could be given against further trouble were incidental and subsidiary inferences. We sometimes hear mention of the housing situation. This is the sort of situation
it is. * * * *
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