Highways and byways in Surrey . Stellas Cottaze. runs a drive open to foot passengers, but not to bicycles ordogs. Nearly at the end of the drive going towards Waverley IV THE WITCHS CAVE 47 Abbey is a curious cave, lined and roofed at the entrance withstone, and barred and gated and spilced with iron, evidently afit habitation, once upon a time, for a very witch-like oldwoman. The gates, or rather railings which do not open,must have been placed there many years ago, for no initialshave been carved, or at least none are visible, on the stone. ,}-JTfuv^>»^ In Moor Park. within. The cave run
Highways and byways in Surrey . Stellas Cottaze. runs a drive open to foot passengers, but not to bicycles ordogs. Nearly at the end of the drive going towards Waverley IV THE WITCHS CAVE 47 Abbey is a curious cave, lined and roofed at the entrance withstone, and barred and gated and spilced with iron, evidently afit habitation, once upon a time, for a very witch-like oldwoman. The gates, or rather railings which do not open,must have been placed there many years ago, for no initialshave been carved, or at least none are visible, on the stone. ,}-JTfuv^>»^ In Moor Park. within. The cave runs back some way from the road, intopleasantly dubious darkness. In this case, according to thetradition of the place, lived the witch, Mother Ludlam, whosecaldron lies in the tower of Frensham Church. Anotherexcavation in the ground a few yards away has also its own 48 GOLD IN A PORTMANTEAU chap. tradition, or rather two traditions. One is that it was theregular abode of a hermit named Foote, who starved to death init; another, that Foote was a lunatic who was found dying in thehole, but actually died in the workhouse. The details areprecise. Foote was a gentleman. He came one day to theUnicorn Inn at Farnham. Next day he hired a man to wheela heavy portmanteau to Moor Park gate, when he told the manto put it down. Foote was taken very ill, was found by oldHill the keeper and taken to Swifts cottage where Hill union officials took Foote and his heavy portmanteau tothe Union. Its only buttons inside, said they. Its go
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