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SMALL TALK
AT WREYLAND
THIRD SERIES

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, Manager
LONDON: FETTER LANE, E. C. 4

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
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SMALL TALK
AT WREYLAND

BY

CECIL TORR


THIRD SERIES

CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1923



CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY
W. LEWIS
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN.

PREFACE

IN case this volume should be read by anyone who has not read itspredecessors, I am quoting these three paragraphs of the original volumeby way of explanation.

And first, about the place itself,

Wreyland is land by the Wrey, a little stream in Devonshire. The Wreyflows into the Bovey, and the Bovey into the Teign, and the Teign flowsout into the sea at Teignmouth. The land is on the east side of theWrey, just opposite the village of Lustleigh. It forms a manor, andgives its name to a hamlet of six houses, of which this as one.

Secondly, about my writing all these things,

Down here, when any of the older natives die, I hear people lamentingthat so much local knowledge has died with them, and saying that theyshould have written things down. Fearing that this might soon be said ofme, I got a book last Christmas—1916—and began to write things down. Imeant to keep to local matters, but have gone much further than Imeant.

Thirdly, about my publishing what I had written,

I wrote this little book for private circulation; and it was actuallyin type, and ready for printing, before its publication was suggested. Ifeel some diffidence in inviting strangers to read what I intended onlyfor my personal friends. But it all seems to hang together, and I havenot omitted anything.

After that was published I went on writing things down in the s

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