John Silence, Physician Extraordinary

part in the centre, a sort of mound where there is a circle of large

boulders--old Druid stones, I’m told. At another place there’s a small pond. There’s nothing distinctive about it that I could mention--just an ordinary pine-wood, a very ordinary pine-wood--only the trees are a bit twisted in the trunks, some of ’em, and very dense. Nothing more.

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