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"They are gone to Capel Curig." "And they left you alone?" "They did. With the cat and the trin-wire." "Do your father and mother make wire-work?" "They do. They live by making it." "What is the wire-work for?" "It is for hedges to fence the fields with." "Do you help your father and mother?" "We do; as far as we can." "You both look unwell." "Is there much cryd about here?" "Plenty."
"Can either of you read?" "Neither one nor the other." "Can your father and mother read?" "My father cannot, my mother can a little." "Are there books in the house?" "There are not." "No Bible?" "There is no book at all." "Do you go to church?" "We do not." "To chapel?" "In fine weather." "Are you happy?" "When there is bread in the house and no cryd we are all happy."
I went in and sat down on a chair which a sickly-looking young woman handed to me. I asked her in English who she was, but she made no answer, whereupon the old woman told me that she was her daughter and had no English. I then asked her in Welsh what was the matter with her, she replied that she had the cryd or ague.
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