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The lad stopping flung open a gate which led into the garden, then crying to a child which he saw within: "Gad roi tro" let the man take a turn; he was about to leave me, when I stopped him to put sixpence into his hand. He received the money with a gruff "Diolch!" and instantly set off at a quick pace.
"The chair is really here," said the old lady, "and though Huw Morus was no prophet, we love and reverence everything belonging to him. Get on Llances, the chair can't be far off;" the girl moved on, and presently the old lady exclaimed, "There's the chair, Diolch i Duw!"
"Do you live well?" "When we have bread we live well." "If I give you a penny will you bring me some water?" "We will, whether you give us a penny or not. Come, sister, let us go and fetch the gentleman water." They ran into the house and presently returned, the girl bearing a pan of water. After I had drunk I gave each of the children a penny, and received in return from each a diolch or thanks.
This was done at least three times, accompanied with tears, blessings, prayers, the uplifting of poor filmy eyes to a cloudless Heaven "Diolch i Dduw!" ejaculations as to the wonder of it "Rhyfeddol yw yn eiholl ffyrdd" God's Providence His ways are past finding out! "Ni ellir olrain ei Ragluniaeth!" "My own dear boy! Fy machgen annwyli!" Then the old woman took her turn: "Master David!
Wales has not only a population, but a highly interesting one hardy and frugal, yet kind and hospitable a bit crazed, it is true, on the subject of religion, but still retaining plenty of old Celtic peculiarities, and still speaking Diolch i Duw! the language of Glendower and the Bards. The present is a book about Wales and Welsh matters.
A woman passed me going towards Rhiwabon; I pointed to the ridge and asked its name; I spoke English. The woman shook her head and replied "Dim Saesneg." "This is as it should be," said I to myself; "I now feel I am in Wales." I repeated the question in Welsh. "Cefn Bach," she replied which signifies the little ridge. "Diolch iti," I replied, and proceeded on my way.
I shook her by the hand, and gave the chubby bare-armed damsel a shilling, pointing to the marks of the nettle stings on her fat bacon-like arms. She laughed, made me a curtsey, and said: "Llawer iawn o diolch." John Jones and I then proceeded to the house at Pont y Meibion, where we saw two men, one turning a grind-stone, and the other holding an adze to it.
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