Survey of English Dialects recording in Llanellen, Monmouthshire
Description
[Side 1] Bill talks about badger baiting, describes typical layout of 'earth' [= badger's den], comments foxes often take over 'berry' [= rabbit burrow] or earth but smell of fox usually forces badger to leave, explains how dog is sent into earth to locate badger underground and 'bay' [= bark] to indicate where to dig, describes how badger often barricades hole with stones and tree bark. [Side 2] Bill recalls rearing fox cub found abandoned on mountain and keeping it for 3 years, eventually sold it to neighbour who returned it after she started keeping chickens, advertised it in newspaper as tame fox and sold it for £1 to owners who kept it in stable.
Metadata
| Identifier | qjf6pj1z |
| IRN | 726601 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D222 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qjf6pj1z |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | 09 Dec 1955 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 05 min. 37 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 13 sec. |