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Friday , June Eve 1872
.....It seemed as if the night would never get dark and we could not begin the fireworks till nearly ten. They were the first fireworks ever seen in Clyro and the village and the Bron were swarming with people. The rockets chiefly rushed downwards into the earth instead of rushing upwards into the sky, but two ascended and one rocket stick fell in the churchyard upon Mrs Venable's grave. Divers Roman candles burst and tore open divers people's hands, but the blue lights and the mines and the catherine wheels and the jacks in the boxes were very successful. Children were shouting about the village so they were heard in Hay at 11 o'clock and some did not go home till after midnight.
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Abbey Cwm Hir
Friday, 22 April 1870
.....At 11.30 Mr Evans Cecil and I started to walk over the hills to Abbey Cwm Hir. We heard the musical 'dinner call' from the farm houses summoning the labourers at work on the farm to their midday meal. And from the fields came an answering cry showing that the call was a welcome one.
We rapidley descended the steep bank and got into the valley, making for the great house belonging to Mr Phillips the squire, where we hoped to get some luncheon.
The masons were at work all round the great new house giving finishing touches to their work and the place was full of joiners and painters.
Mr and Mrs Phillips were at luncheon in the servants' hall which they were using now as a dining room till the house is finished.
They both came and welcomed us most kindly. They had us in and gave us some very good cold mutton, bread and butter and sherry and some splendid Burton beer.
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Thursday, Midsummer Day 1875
And a lovely day it has been, soft warm and sunny. I took the young cockoo out of his nest, put him in the great wicker cage, and hung the cage up in the hawthorn hedge close to the old nest that the hedge sparrows might feed their charge. It reminded me of William Barnes the Dorestshire Poet's humorous lines, 'And the goocoo will soon be committed to cage, for a trespass in somebody's tree'. |
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