So all is explained, But as one looks at the grove of trees growing from the clearly defined boundaries where the house cellars used to be one cannot help wondering. Why should every stone be erased, every trace of the building and of the past obliterated? What is the hidden history behind the bare story, and what the truth that made the folk etymology probable?
There is at least one other legend—that tht ghost of the Siy Simeon who sold the house (it is not said why he sold it) and who/s mentioned in Gilbert White's "Natural History" haunts the ground. Again, why?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.