Excerpt from The Sheep-Stealers
IN the earlier half of the nineteenth century, when most of the travelling done by our grandfathers was done by road, and the intercourse between districts by no means far apart was but small, a tract of country lying at the foot of the Black Mountain, which rises just inside the Welsh border, was as far behind the times of which I speak, as though it had been a hundred miles from any town.
Where the Great Western engines now roar down the Wye valley, carrying the traveller who makes his journey in spring through orchards full of pink blossom, the roads then lay in peaceful and unsophisticated quiet. Soon after leaving Here ford, the outline of the mountain might be seen raising itself like an awakening giant, over green hedges and rich meadow land from the midst of the verdure and cultivation.
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| ISBN: | 9781330803479 |
| Publication date: | 23rd April 2018 |
| Author: | Violet Jacob |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |