The Severn valley: a series of sketches, descriptive and pictorial, of the course of the Severn: containing notices of its topographical, industrial, and geological features; with glances at its historical and legendary associations (1862)
Randall, John, 1810-1910 · London, J. S. Virtue · leaf 36
22 THE SEVERN VALLEY. Farmers acquainted with their haunts^ take their young and rear them^ or their eggs^ and hatch them with domestic fowl^ by which means young broods settle upon contiguous streams or pools^ and get their own living till they are fit for use. For ducks^ geese^ cranes^ cor-… … MOOR-HEN. we refer the reader to Dick Kinson, of Caersws. Dick is known over the hills for fifty miles ; he has been a sportsman for full that number of years, having taken out a license for thirty, and shot without one for twenty years. It is a treat to see Dick handle his gun, and to hear him…
Severn River Valley (Wales and England) -- Description and travel
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