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StoneGloves Oct 27, 2007 17:28:51
Replying to tomwatts

Ruddle - there's a transient character in a Thomas Hardy novel that has a ruddle seller. He roves, with his wagon, selling to farmers who use it - still - for marking sheep.

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tiompan Oct 27, 2007 18:07:16
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StoneGloves wrote:
Ruddle - there's a transient character in a Thomas Hardy novel that has a ruddle seller. He roves, with his wagon, selling to farmers who use it - still - for marking sheep.
Diggory Venn in "Return of the native " is the reddle man , Hardy is not at all popular these days but I'm still a big fan . Pity he wasn't as interested in archaeology as another great writer of "peasant" novels ,Leslie Mitchell aka Lewis Grassic Gibbon , he had so much more surrounding him than just Stonehenge.