Sparrow, Walter Shaw, 1862- · London, Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 182
ities. It is always well to consider old methods and to see howthey tally with our own experience. We and they are at one inmany respects. Stevenson notes, for example, that a wall offreestone, though it absorbs some moisture, rarely absorbs enoughto let the wet pass through it, and is safer in… … ao co < Q o 129 OUR HOMES water, it will absorb it as a small lump does. In a castle latelybuilt in Ireland, walls six feet thick were found to let the dampthrough them, and probably may never dry. The damp mustbe kept from getting into them at all, by a coating of cementor roughcast, or by…
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