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CONTENTS 



FAGS 



CHAPTER I 



Introductory Lack of English No schooling Music "A cup of tea?" 

 Poultry Oatcakes Pancakes Eggs Lipton Dewar Small farms 

 Wild sheep Leading sheep Collies Numbers of dogs and sheep 

 Blue Merles Sheep- worrying Sheep fairs Welsh mutton . . I 



CHAPTER II 



Agricultural Customs Changes of tenancy Valuations of sheep Types of 

 sheep Clipping lambs Long names Contented farmers Black cattle 

 Bulls Ploughing Threshing Winnowing Agricultural improvements 

 Old milestone Meanness ...... 9 



CHAPTER III 



Llanuwchllyn Bala Lake Cymmer Abbey " Bala has gone and will go 

 again " Fair Vale of Edeirnion And legend of the Dee Grayling 

 Salmon Trout Angling season Size of trout Pike Miller's- thumb 

 Pike fishing Perch Gudgeon Minnows . . . . 18 



CHAPTER IV 



Gwyniads Numbers Dimensions And uses of Ancient lay Roach Rudd 



Breams Hybrid fish Eels ...... 30 



CHAPTER V 



Bala Lake Geological features Llan-y-cil Wildfowl Habits of Possible 



increase of Grebes Coots Efficient watchers Sentinels . , 39 



CHAPTER VI 



Cormorants Rapacity of Swallowing powers Prototypes of heraldry As 



food Sparrow pie and other dainties Shags . . . .46 



CHAPTER VII 



Dabchicks Great Crested Grebes TealFalcons "Vermin "A brilliant 



meteor Buzzards Kestrels . . . . . . ' ... 52 



