Small Talk at Wreyland. Third Series

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, Manager LONDON: FETTER LANE, E. C. 4
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LAYING NEW THATCH
YONDER 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.
IN case this volume should be read by anyone who has not read its predecessors, I am quoting these three paragraphs of the original volume by way of explanation.
And first, about the place itself,
Wreyland is land by the Wrey, a little stream in Devonshire. The Wrey flows into the Bovey, and the Bovey into the Teign, and the Teign flows out into the sea at Teignmouth. The land is on the east side of the Wrey, just opposite the village of Lustleigh. It forms a manor, and gives 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 lamenting that so much local knowledge has died with them, and saying that they should have written things down. Fearing that this might soon be said of me, I got a book last Christmas—1916—and began to write things down. I meant to keep to local matters, but have gone much further than I meant.
Thirdly, about my publishing what I had written,