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IN every county, in almost every town, the visitor will be pointed out a building, completed or uncompleted, which is known locally as somebody's "Folly. " Mr. Jennings's Folly, which is perpetuated on the country side of New Barnet, concerned a builder who had amassed a large and convenient fortune by building small and inconvenient houses.
It had occurred to Mr. Jennings one bright day that what was needed more than any other type of building was the country flat. He argued that flat-dwellers were of a race apart and were lonely and miserable when they were put into houses. He had conceived the idea of raising in the very heart of the loneliest part of New Barnet, and in a more or less inaccessible spot, his country flats.