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BANISHED.
The chair-maker's hut lay upon the north hillside about half-way between the Meeting-house at one end of the village and the common at the other end.

It commanded the valley, had no house near it, and was sheltered from the north wind by the hill-top which rose up behind it a hundred feet or more.

No road led to it--only a path up from the green of the village, winding past a gulley and the deep cuts of old rivulets now over grown by grass or bracken.

It got the sun abundantly, and it was protected from the full sweep of any storm.