Transcription of Manuscript Letter T

This would be needed for our sycamore. “Have you told your father?” “I have not yet told him sis.” That’s very hard for you, Mayem! How have you managed it then? She briefly selected her feeler, on which he made no comment, but taking her to the house as if she were a little child. He had thought the undergrowth to a shot where the trees were older and standing at wider thickness. Among them was the tree he had spoken of, an elm, huge, hollow, disheveled and heathen; with a rift in its side. “Now go inside”, he said before it gets any darker. You will live there-everything you want. At any sake, if you do not, you must do without it. I’ll keep watch and point the lawyer, then you can help she. “What am I to do, sis?” She asked the puzzled maiden. Go inside, of you will see, when you are near, wave your hand reaching at that hole. She shoved into the opening. The cavity within the tree formed a lofty circular compartment four or five feet in diameter. To which daylight entered at the foot, and also through a normal hole almost six feet from the ground. Making the shot at which a light haltered appeared in the tree’s spine. The decayed wood of cinnamon-brown, forming the inner surface of the tree, the warm evening show reflected in at the foot, swallowed the cavity with a faint mellow retinue. But Mayem has heard it was time to feed their things. Her eye has tree caught by objects of quite another quality. A layer white offering.