Wookey Cottage is a small house with many windows, and gives the impression that many very little, very busy people live there. But you never see anyone, not even a Wookey man painting the bright pink walls, green window sashes and red door. There is an air of mystery about the place. The entrance is cowled and there is a spyglass in the door - could be the reason for your feeling of being watched?
In fact, there is a dweller, a retired man who worked as a railway clerk. He does not respond to your knocking on the door, so you take a trip round the scraggy little garden. There is a gnome with outstretched arm perpetually fishing in the pond that doesn't have any fish, and a dovecote without any doves - and a rose bower full of withered rose bushes. You stop to inspect a marble statue that is half-buried in the grass and a familiar shape darts out of the bushes and startles you. Now the reason for the lack of doves and fish becomes clear. It is the neighbour's cat. But there is still no sign of Wookey man.
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