Dear Megan,   Many thanks. What journal year and edition number did the piece on Spitting Cardies come from?    Incidentally, I wonder if statistics show that the incidence of TB went up when the our baccie chewing ancestors arrived in the Vale of Glamorgan? - Spitting in the streets was discouraged from the 1880s to try to control the spread of this disease.   Jen From: Megan Roberts <[email protected]> To: Dyfdd List <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 10 March 2012, 10:28 Subject: [Dyfed] Old Journals I have from time to time been reading through the some of the journals that are available at “Welsh Journals on Line” site which is a fantastic resource for people wanting to know more about life in past times..Recently I have been reading back issues of the Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society and thought list members might be interested in a few snippets from them...snip I had always supposed that my ancestors who left West Wales for the mines in South East Wales did so solely as part of the industrial revolution and the move away from agriculture.  Whilst this was part of it there had been seasonal migrations of harvest gangs from Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire for years before this returning home after the harvest.   Apparently in the Vale of Glamorgan the “Cardies” were known for their thrift and piety.  They slept in the farmer’s barns, which at night rang with the music of old Welsh hymns, and on Sunday’s filled the “free seats” in the Nonconformist Chapels.  They did however, have one habit that the local Chapel caretakers did not like, namely chewing tobacco.  Apparently they would chew throughout the service, and the more they like the service the more they chewed and spat!   Megan