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S M A L L T A L K
A T W R E Y L A N D

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, Manager
LONDON: Fetter Lane, E.C. 4

NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, MADRAS: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
TORONTO: J. M. DENT AND SONS, Ltd.
TOKYO: THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA

All rights reserved

LUSTLEIGH CLEAVE FROM THE OVAL LAWN

SMALL TALK
AT WREYLAND

BY

CECIL TORR

CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1918

First Edition, June, 1918
Reprinted, November, 1918

CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY
J. B. PEACE, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

PREFACE

I WROTE this little book for private circulation; and it was actually intype, 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.

In addressing this to strangers, I should explain that Wreyland is landby the Wrey, a little stream in Devonshire. The Wrey flows into theBovey, and the Bovey into the Teign, and the Teign flows out into thesea at Teignmouth. The land is on the east side of the Wrey, justopposite the village of Lustleigh. It forms a manor, and gives its nameto a hamlet of six houses, of which this is one.

CECIL TORR.

Yonder Wreyland,
Lustleigh,
Devon.