Note 29b — Chapter II · JOURNEY THROUGH HAY AND BRECHEINIA
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This same habit is still (in Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s time) used by the Welsh ploughboys; they have a sort of chaunt, consisting of half or even quarter notes, which is sung to the oxen at plough: the countrymen vulgarly supposing that the beasts are consoled to work more regularly and patiently by such a lullaby.