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Without descending to the river, we turned aside up a hill, and, after passing by a few huts, came to a large house, which my guide told me was the inn of Pont Erwyd. Consequential Landlord Cheek Darfel Gatherel Dafydd Nanmor Sheep Farms Wholesome Advice The Old Postman The Plant de Bat The Robber's Cavern. MY guide went to a side door, and opening it without ceremony went in.
"Darfel Gatherel," said I, "is not gibberish; it was the name of the great wooden image at Ty Dewi, or Saint David's, in Pembrokeshire, to which thousands of pilgrims in the days of popery used to repair for the purpose of adoring it, and which at the time of the Reformation was sent up to London as a curiosity, where it eventually served as firewood to burn the monk Forrest upon, who was sentenced to the stake by Henry the Eighth for denying his supremacy.
Pray what is the meaning of Darfel Gatherel?" "Oh sir!" said the landlord, "you must answer that question yourself; I don't pretend to understand gibberish!"
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