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A TRADITION OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR
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The widely discussed possibility of an invasion of England through a Channel tunnel has more than once recalled old Solomon Selby’s story to my mind.
The occasion on which I numbered myself among his audience was one evening when he was sitting in the yawning chimney-corner of the inn-kitchen, with some others who had gathered there, and I entered for shelter from the rain. Withdrawing the stem of his pipe from the dental notch1 in which it habitually2 rested, he leaned back in the recess3 behind him and smiled into the fire. The smile was neither mirthful nor sad, not precisely4 humorous nor altogether thoughtful. We who knew him recognized it in a moment: it was his narrative5 smile. Breaking off our few desultory6 remarks we drew up closer, and he thus began:—
‘My father, as you mid7 know, was a shepherd all his life, and lived out by the Cove8 four miles yonder, where I was born and lived likewise, till I moved here shortly afore I was married. The cottage that first knew me stood on the top of the down, near the sea; there was no house within a mile and a half of it; it was built o’ purpose for the farm-shepherd, and had no other use. They tell me that it is now pulled down, but that you can see where it stood by the mounds9 of earth and a few broken bricks that are still lying about. It was a bleak10 and dreary11
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