A Modern Baron's Stronghold | Maclean's
A Modern Baron's Stronghold Blynn Greyson ALL the old barons are dead and their castles are doddering along to decay —but one; a new baron, with a new castle has appeared. The strongholds of the men who waged gory wars with one another in the mighty days before King John, and who carried luckless tenants as captive—and howling, down into the donjon-keep, are molding. They are knockkneed and decrepit, to say nothing of being unsanitary. But this new baron’s castle is to be of a new generation of castles —hot water heating, electric lights and baths. It is to be—says the artist who de...
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