On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:00:54 -0000, B & L Copeland <lebrac3@bigpond.com> wrote: > I do too like books about the countryside in past times. > I am reading one at the moment set in Adelaide in 1850 at the time my > GGGrandparents arrival in Port Adelaide, Australia. > It's called CLARA MORISON 'A Tale of South Australia during The Gold > Fever' by Catherine Helen Spence. Your reference to the above book reminded me that I have a book about Australia called The River Men (1975) by Margaret and Colin Kerr. I was looking for it last night and again this morning, but didn't find it until just now. While searching my bookshelves, what I did find is A Calendar of Country Customs (1978) by Ralph Whitlock, which has a number of Wiltshire references in its index. Reading the information on the book cover, I see that Ralph Whitlock is also the author of The Folklore of Wiltshire (1976). -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com