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The
only
person
who
saw
Wilbur
during
the
first
month
of
his
life
were
old
Zechariah
Whateley
,
of
the
undecayed
Whateleys
,
and
Earl
Sawyer
's
common-law
wife
,
Mamie
Bishop
.
Mamie
's
visit
was
frankly
one
of
curiosity
,
and
her
subsequent
tales
did
justice
to
her
observations
;
but
Zechariah
came
to
lead
a
pair
of
Alderney
cows
which
Old
Whateley
had
bought
of
his
son
Curtis
.
This
marked
the
beginning
of
a
course
of
cattle-buying
on
the
part
of
small
Wilbur
's
family
which
ended
only
in
1928
,
when
the
Dunwich
horror
came
and
went
;
yet
at
no
time
did
the
ramshackle
Whateley
barn
seem
overcrowded
with
livestock
.
There
came
a
period
when
people
were
curious
enough
to
steal
up
and
count
the
herd
that
grazed
precariously
on
the
steep
hillside
above
the
old
farm-house
,
and
they
could
never
find
more
than
ten
or
twelve
anaemic
,
bloodless-looking
specimens
.
Evidently
some
blight
or
distemper
,
perhaps
sprung
from
the
unwholesome
pasturage
or
the
diseased
fungi
and
timbers
of
the
filthy
barn
,
caused
a
heavy
mortality
amongst
the
Whateley
animals
.
Odd
wounds
or
sores
,
having
something
of
the
aspect
of
incisions
,
seemed
to
afflict
the
visible
cattle
;
and
once
or
twice
during
the
earlier
months
certain
callers
fancied
they
could
discern
similar
sores
about
the
throats
of
the
grey
,
unshaven
old
man
and
his
slattemly
,
crinkly-haired
albino
daughter
.
In
the
spring
after
Wilbur
's
birth
Lavinia
resumed
her
customary
rambles
in
the
hills
,
bearing
in
her
misproportioned
arms
the
swarthy
child
.
Public
interest
in
the
Whateleys
subsided
after
most
of
the
country
folk
had
seen
the
baby
,
and
no
one
bothered
to
comment
on
the
swift
development
which
that
newcomer
seemed
every
day
to
exhibit
.
Wilbur
's
growth
was
indeed
phenomenal
,
for
within
three
months
of
his
birth
he
had
attained
a
size
and
muscular
power
not
usually
found
in
infants
under
a
full
year
of
age
.
His
motions
and
even
his
vocal
sounds
showed
a
restraint
and
deliberateness
highly
peculiar
in
an
infant
,
and
no
one
was
really
unprepared
when
,
at
seven
months
,
he
began
to
walk
unassisted
,
with
falterings
which
another
month
was
sufficient
to
remove
.
It
was
somewhat
after
this
time
--
on
Hallowe'en
--
that
a
great
blaze
was
seen
at
midnight
on
the
top
of
Sentinel
Hill
where
the
old
table-like
stone
stands
amidst
its
tumulus
of
ancient
bones
.
Considerable
talk
was
started
when
Silas
Bishop
--
of
the
undecayed
Bishops
--
mentioned
having
seen
the
boy
running
sturdily
up
that
hill
ahead
of
his
mother
about
an
hour
before
the
blaze
was
remarked
.
Silas
was
rounding
up
a
stray
heifer
,
but
he
nearly
forgot
his
mission
when
he
fleetingly
spied
the
two
figures
in
the
dim
light
of
his
lantern
.
They
darted
almost
noiselessly
through
the
underbrush
,
and
the
astonished
watcher
seemed
to
think
they
were
entirely
unclothed
.
Afterwards
he
could
not
be
sure
about
the
boy
,
who
may
have
had
some
kind
of
a
fringed
belt
and
a
pair
of
dark
trunks
or
trousers
on
.
Wilbur
was
never
subsequently
seen
alive
and
conscious
without
complete
and
tightly
buttoned
attire
,
the
disarrangement
or
threatened
disarrangement
of
which
always
seemed
to
fill
him
with
anger
and
alarm
.
His
contrast
with
his
squalid
mother
and
grandfather
in
this
respect
was
thought
very
notable
until
the
horror
of
1928
suggested
the
most
valid
of
reasons
.
The
next
January
gossips
were
mildly
interested
in
the
fact
that
'
Lavinny
's
black
brat
'
had
commenced
to
talk
,
and
at
the
age
of
only
eleven
months
.
His
speech
was
somewhat
remarkable
both
because
of
its
difference
from
the
ordinary
accents
of
the
region
,
and
because
it
displayed
a
freedom
from
infantile
lisping
of
which
many
children
of
three
or
four
might
well
be
proud
.
The
boy
was
not
talkative
,
yet
when
he
spoke
he
seemed
to
reflect
some
elusive
element
wholly
unpossessed
by
Dunwich
and
its
denizens
.
The
strangeness
did
not
reside
in
what
he
said
,
or
even
in
the
simple
idioms
he
used
;
but
seemed
vaguely
linked
with
his
intonation
or
with
the
internal
organs
that
produced
the
spoken
sounds
.
His
facial
aspect
,
too
,
was
remarkable
for
its
maturity
;
for
though
he
shared
his
mother
's
and
grandfather
's
chinlessness
,
his
firm
and
precociously
shaped
nose
united
with
the
expression
of
his
large
,
dark
,
almost
Latin
eyes
to
give
him
an
air
of
quasi-adulthood
and
well-nigh
preternatural
intelligence
.
He
was
,
however
,
exceedingly
ugly
despite
his
appearance
of
brilliancy
;
there
being
something
almost
goatish
or
animalistic
about
his
thick
lips
,
large-pored
,
yellowish
skin
,
coarse
crinkly
hair
,
and
oddly
elongated
ears
.
He
was
soon
disliked
even
more
decidedly
than
his
mother
and
grandsire
,
and
all
conjectures
about
him
were
spiced
with
references
to
the
bygone
magic
of
Old
Whateley
,
and
how
the
hills
once
shook
when
he
shrieked
the
dreadful
name
of
Yog
--
Sothoth
in
the
midst
of
a
circle
of
stones
with
a
great
book
open
in
his
arms
before
him
.
Dogs
abhorred
the
boy
,
and
he
was
always
obliged
to
take
various
defensive
measures
against
their
barking
menace
.
Meanwhile
Old
Whateley
continued
to
buy
cattle
without
measurably
increasing
the
size
of
his
herd
.
He
also
cut
timber
and
began
to
repair
the
unused
parts
of
his
house
--
a
spacious
,
peak-roofed
affair
whose
rear
end
was
buried
entirely
in
the
rocky
hillside
,
and
whose
three
least-ruined
ground-floor
rooms
had
always
been
sufficient
for
himself
and
his
daughter
.
There
must
have
been
prodigious
reserves
of
strength
in
the
old
man
to
enable
him
to
accomplish
so
much
hard
labour
;
and
though
he
still
babbled
dementedly
at
times
,
his
carpentry
seemed
to
show
the
effects
of
sound
calculation
.
It
had
already
begun
as
soon
as
Wilbur
was
born
,
when
one
of
the
many
tool
sheds
had
been
put
suddenly
in
order
,
clapboarded
,
and
fitted
with
a
stout
fresh
lock
.
Now
,
in
restoring
the
abandoned
upper
storey
of
the
house
,
he
was
a
no
less
thorough
craftsman
.
His
mania
showed
itself
only
in
his
tight
boarding-up
of
all
the
windows
in
the
reclaimed
section
--
though
many
declared
that
it
was
a
crazy
thing
to
bother
with
the
reclamation
at
all
.
Less
inexplicable
was
his
fitting
up
of
another
downstairs
room
for
his
new
grandson
--
a
room
which
several
callers
saw
,
though
no
one
was
ever
admitted
to
the
closely-boarded
upper
storey
.
This
chamber
he
lined
with
tall
,
firm
shelving
,
along
which
he
began
gradually
to
arrange
,
in
apparently
careful
order
,
all
the
rotting
ancient
books
and
parts
of
books
which
during
his
own
day
had
been
heaped
promiscuously
in
odd
corners
of
the
various
rooms
.
'
I
made
some
use
of
'em
,
'
he
would
say
as
he
tried
to
mend
a
torn
black-letter
page
with
paste
prepared
on
the
rusty
kitchen
stove
,
'
but
the
boy
's
fitten
to
make
better
use
of
'em
.
He
'd
orter
hev
'em
as
well
so
as
he
kin
,
for
they
're
goin
'
to
be
all
of
his
larnin
'
.
'
