Strange Roads
with a queer smile, "you'll see a good many mountain ash trees planted round my little place out here that I am taking you to."
Then Mr. Gillespie began talking about flax; and the new and improved treatment of it which had speeded up the linen manufacture tremendously; he was a thoroughly practical man. But when we got to his country house, I found, as he had said, that it was fended and hedged about by mountain ash trees.
The saddest of all roads is the road that has been murdered. I know such a road in Wales. It wound to right and left in a goodly
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