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“Leather will wet rot. Collagen fibers in vellum will tighten and shrink.”

And the smell of mud, mold, and wet rot was thick enough to stick.

Thus far my sense of sight; while dry rot and wet rot and all the silent rots that rot in neglected roof and cellar,—rot of rat and mouse and bug and coaching-stables near at hand besides—addressed themselves faintly to my sense of smell, and moaned, “Try Barnard’s Mixture.”

Thus far my sense of sight; while dry rot and wet rot and all the silent rots that rot in neglected roof and cellar—rot of rat and mouse and bug and coaching-stables near at hand besides—addressed themselves faintly to my sense of smell, and moaned “Try Barnard’s Mixture.”

"It had been student accommodation for 30 years, so it didn't look like it does now. "We had dry rot and wet rot and we re-roofed it and then the roof was stolen.