ENGLISHMEN
COUNTRY FOLK, by Norman Wymer; Odhams Press, through Whitcombe and Tombs, N.Z. price 18/9. O you know what a galee is? Or a well-dresser, or a Cokeler? These folk and those of many other quaint or unusual occupations are described in this book. There are accounts of such as the Yorkshire dalesmen (who "hear all, see all and say nowt" on the Yorkshire theory that "if a man knaws nowt an’ says nowt, folk will allus think ’e knaws summat"), the lace-makers, Cornish fishérmen, West Country cidermakers, the wildfowlers of the East Anglian marches; but most interesting I found the story of the masons and "marblers" who quarry the slates and tiles of Northamptonshire and the Cotswolds and the marble of Purbeck, The reader is warned, however, that the book, though well illustrated with good photographs, is sentimental rather than
scientific,
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 14
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144ENGLISHMEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 14
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