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He is the clebberest man in Llangollen, sir. He can do everything. He is a great cook, and can wash clothes better than any woman. Oh, sir, for carnal things, who so clebber as your countrymen!" After walking about four miles by the side of the canal we left it, and bearing to the right presently came to the aqueduct, which strode over a deep and narrow valley, at the bottom of which ran the Dee.
"You are alluding to Black Robin," said I, "who wrote the ode in praise of Anglesey yes, he was a very clever young fellow, but excuse me, he was not half such a poet as Gronwy Owen." "Black Robin," said Mr Bos, "and Gronow Owen, who the Devil were they? I never heard of either. I wasn't talking of them, but of the clebberest man the world ever saw. Did you never hear of Owen Tiddir?
"Are Saxons then so very clever?" "Oh yes, sir; who so clebber? The clebberest people in Llangollen are Saxons; that is, at carnal things for at spiritual things I do not think them at all clebber. Look at Mr A., sir." "Who is he?" "Do you not know him, sir? I thought everybody knew Mr A. He is a Saxon, sir, and keeps the inn on the road a little way below where you live.
Another remarkable person whom I got acquainted with about this time was A-, the innkeeper, who lived a little way down the road, of whom John Jones had spoken so highly, saying, amongst other things, that he was the clebberest man in Llangollen. One day as I was looking in at his gate, he came forth, took off his hat, and asked me to do him the honour to come in and look at his grounds.
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