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 37
23 THE SEVERN VALLEY. the year in which they were always fatter than in any other he could not account for it^ but it was so/^ He had cooked them occasionally ; they were very fishy; but two gentlemen dined off one in his little … THE CRANE. parlour^ and eat it every bit. How their flesh come to be looked upon as a dainty in former times^ he could not tell^ unless it was that the heron-shaw was pro- tected and the goose wasn^t. They bred on the hills^ in baskets of their own making for nests. It had been
Severn River Valley (Wales and England) -- Description and travel
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