Along the road leading from Aberystwyth to Talybont, Cardiganshire, was a long procession of sheep. Fleetfooted sheepdogs silently marshalled them, drove them, held them, stopped them, did anything with them at the call of their masters healthy, redfaced farmers’ boys from the mountains. Some of the fleece then being carried on those frightened backs would, I reflected, one day attract admiration as Welsh tweed, which, I think, is as good as any of the other vaunted tweeds. It was, therefore, with added interest that I saw a notice announcing the “Lerry Mills.”I walked past some old cottages, greeted an affectionate brown spaniel dog which took a fancy to me ad entered a clean, lowroofed room with attractive black rafters against the whitewashed ceiling and with a floor of large stone slabs.

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