On a Welsh Mountain
I DON’T know which sort of reader is going ta enjoy the keener pleasure: the experienced sheepe man, who will wonder why pulpy kidney is a greater mystery in Wales than in New Zealand, and will appreciate what Firbank did in systematic culling and breeding for type, or the average reader, who will be delighted by vivid pictures of unfamiliar scenes and operations, and will pick up all sorts of curious facts. For example, the Welsh sheep grows a wiry wool, with that fibrous hair in it called kemp. When the whirligig of fashion turns the ladies’ demand to those very fuzzy tweeds that look as though they need shaving, up goes the price of Welsh wool-« doubled! (J. H. E. Schroder, reviewing Thomas Fire bank’s "I Bought a Mountain" 3Y A, October 15).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 72, 8 November 1940, Page 5
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138On a Welsh Mountain New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 72, 8 November 1940, Page 5
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