[Kiki]

Demdike,s Cottage from Robert Neil,s" Mist over Pendle"novel
Here was a windy moorland with the thin road crossing it, straight and stark. It stood alone far from the life of the forest, no out buildings ringed it. No animals, not a cow not a sheep not even a chicken seemed to belong to it. Its only sign of life was a wisp of smoke flattening into the wind from its single chimney. It stood alone and desolate, an outcast from the dwellings of men. It was decayed, ramshackle ,desperate, there were holes in the thatch and cracks in the walls .The boundary fence was torn into crazy gaps. But for the the smoke she would of supposed the place derelict and abandoned these twenty years. If this was a human habitation it surely ought not to be!
A hare sprang from nowhere!
Thats what our country folk would call a malkin, and here we are the Malkin Tower- ------Just found this bit that i copied out to try and imagine,an idea for a painting!