CLEAR WATERS 



materially comfortable as well as aesthetically satisfying. 

 But the man who would fish the Honddu, whether 

 on the club water by favour of a member, or on the 

 higher parts from the Priory Inn, must be at home 

 in timber, for much of it is thickly fringed with brush. 

 Hereford, Monmouth, and Brecon so interlace their 

 borders here, to say nothing of recent boundary 

 readjustments, it is not easy up in this lovely corner 

 of all three, even were it worth while, to take count 

 of such things. But at any rate it is safe to say 

 that within living memory there were natives of 

 the county of Hereford in this sequestered corner who 

 were speaking Welsh as their mother tongue. 



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