When in full bloom some of the cottagers gather the scarlet flowers in great quantities and from them make poppy wine.

This liquor has a fine colour and is very heady, and those who make it seem to think much of it.

Upon the hills where furze grows plentifully the flowers are also collected, and a dye extracted from them.

Ribbons can thus be dyed a bright yellow, but it requires a large quantity of the flowers.
A little farther a sheep-dog looked at us from a gateway; and on coming nearer we found the shepherd busily engaged cutting the feet of his sheep one by one with a keen knife.

They had got the foot-rot down in a meadow--they do not suffer from it on the arable uplands where folded--and the shepherd was now applying a caustic solution.