Survey of English Dialects recording in Llanellen, Monmouthshire
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- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Llanellen, Monmouthshire
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Description:
[Side 1] Bill talks about badger baiting, describes typical layout of 'earth' [= badger's den], comments foxes often take over 'berry' [= rabbit burrow] or earth but smell of fox usually forces badger to leave, explains how dog is sent into earth to locate badger underground and 'bay' [= bark] to indicate where to dig, describes how badger often barricades hole with stones and tree bark. [Side 2] Bill recalls rearing fox cub found abandoned on mountain and keeping it for 3 years, eventually sold it to neighbour who returned it after she started keeping chickens, advertised it in newspaper as tame fox and sold it for £1 to owners who kept it in stable.
- Date range: 09 Dec 1955
- Date: 1955
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D222
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/34814
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