Country Life
CONTINUOUS ANNALS.
The continuity of country life in Britain is a thing that only countrymen believe ; and they take it for granted. It gives peculiar pleasure, in days of quick change, to discover new instances. I have come into contact with two in the last few days, one South Welsh, one English. The Ewenny potteries near Bridgend, South Wales, have been in active existence since 1610: not exactly in the same spot, for a migration of a few hundred yards was made by a soldier when he returned from the Peninsular War. The name of the family also has changed once—from Morgan to Jenkins— though the heredity is continuous. The active workers in the business to-day are a father, five sons, and a daughter (who is an artist) and six other working hands.
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