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Re: The two Billies - Charcoal burners.


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Posted by Peter Hyland on June 21, 2017 at 01:49:47 user Peter_H.

In Reply to: Re: The two Billies - Charcoal burners. posted by Glen Jansen on June 20, 2017 at 11:24:23:

where AR got his reference from to use in the book

From his own experience (as with most things). He describes in his Autobiography childhood holidays at Nibthwaite where there were "charcoal-burners who in those days still dwelt in wigwams carefully watching their smoking mounds".


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