Ancient Skill
PRESENT-DAY ELIZABETHANS is a paradoxical title that catches the attention, and I was a little apprehensive in case the New Look at Ascot had gone a little too far, and blossomed out into doublet and hose, or ruffles. However a programme summary from 3YA earlier in the evening explained that this talk, by Mrs. R. H. B. Butler, was concerned with the people living in the north-west corner of Georgia, where time seems almost to have stood still. This was an interesting firsthand account of these people and their way of life; their self-sufficiency, their simplicity, and their archaic speech, seem to have come down from Elizabethan times with remarkably little change. But I must confess that while I was impressed by the housewife’s proficiency in spinning and weaving, it was the skill and nonchalance with which she directed qa stream of tobacco juice across her guests’ heads and into the stove that I really coveted.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 472, 9 July 1948, Page 14
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158Ancient Skill New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 472, 9 July 1948, Page 14
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