I wonder if anyone ever does buy these houses, or if they are merely there to tantalize poor folk?
Will this do?
'A finely timbered sporting estate--seventeen bedrooms----'" "Too small," said Jock from his cramped position on the raft.
"'A beautiful little property----' No.

Oh, listen.

'A characteristic Cotswold Tudor house'-- doesn't that sound delicious?
'Mullioned windows.
Fine suite of reception-rooms, ballroom.

Lovely garden, with trout-stream intersecting'-- heavenly.

'There are vineries, peach-houses, greenhouses, and pits'-- what do you do with pits ?" "Keep bears in them, of course," said Jock, and added vaguely--"bear baiting, you know." "It isn't usual to keep bears," David pointed out.
"No, but if you _had_ them," Jock insisted, "you would want pits to keep them in." "Jock," said Jean, "you are like the White Knight when Alice told him it wasn't likely that there would be any mice on the horse's back.