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Title: PseudoPod 814: The Green Scarf
Post by: Bdoomed on June 26, 2022, 04:59:48 AM
PseudoPod 814: The Green Scarf (https://pseudopod.org/2022/06/13/pseudopod-814-the-green-scarf/)

Author: Alfred McLelland Burrage (https://pseudopod.org/people/alfred-mclelland-burrage/)
Narrator: Marc Burrows (https://pseudopod.org/people/marc-burrows/)
Host: Alasdair Stuart (https://pseudopod.org/people/alasdair-stuart/)
Audio Producer: Chelsea Davis (https://pseudopod.org/people/chelsea-davis/)

“The Green Scarf” originally appeared in The London Magazine, August 1926



When the Wellingford family became extinct the days of Wellingford Hall as one of the great country homes of England were already numbered. The estate passed into the hands of commercial-minded people who had no reverence for the history of a great house. The acres around the old Hall became too valuable as building sites to be allowed to remain as a park surrounding a country mansion. So the fat Wellingford sheep were driven elsewhere to pasture, and surveyors and architects heralded the coming of navvies and builders.

All this happened many years ago. The old park became crossed and criss-crossed by new roads, and perky little villas with names like ‘Ivyleigh’ and ‘Dulce Domum’ sprang up like monstrous red fungi. Even these have since mellowed, and grown their own ivy and Virginia creeper, and put on airs of respectable maturity. The Hall itself, forlorn and abandoned, like some poor human wretch deserted in his old age, began slowly to crumble and decay.




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