"There used to be a charming volume called Friends in Fur and Feathers, which used to delight us in childhood with its account of the birds that haunted the swamps about Borth. But I have never come across this book in later life, so I presume it shares the fate of Sir John Scourfield's topical rhymes and George Powell's sentimental verses; Ils vont sous la neige d'antan."

Herbert M. Vaughan, The south Wales squires : a Welsh picture of social life (1926), p. 85.