216 FOREWARNED, FOREARMED.

 

 

“L PITTED THEM INTO FRAMES THAT HELD THEM LIKE A CARRIAGE,”

shelter from the young trees, if they attempted to approach my
outer wall.

Thus in two years’ time I had a thick grove, and in five or six
years’ time I had a wood before my dwelling, growing so monstrous
thick and strong, that it was indeed perfectly impassable; and no
men, of what kind soever, would ever imagine that there was any-
thing beyond it, much less a habitation. As for the way which I
proposed to myself to go in and out (for I left uo avenue), it was