text:  The frequent appearance of dragoons the clatter of their dangling accoutrements of war and grotesque ferocity of hairy headgear and mock-heroic air of superiority to the more quietly grotesque groups of grey-coated men and muffled up Welsh women gives a new feature to our tour in this hitherto tranquil region where a soldier used to be a monster that men women children all alike would run to the cottage door to look at