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Updated: June 16, 2025
He was whipping his horses, who were straining up the ascent, and was swearing at them most frightfully in English. I addressed him in that language, inquiring the name of the crag, but he answered Dim Saesneg, and then again fell to cursing; his horses in English.
"Dim Saesneg, sir," said the man, looking rather sheepish, "Dim gair o Saesneg." Rather surprised that a person of his appearance should not have a word of English, I repeated my question in Welsh. "Ah, you speak Cumraeg, sir;" said the man evidently surprised that a person of my English appearance should speak Welsh. "I am glad of it! What hill is that, you ask Dyna Mont Owain Glyndwr, sir."
Presently I crossed a little bridge over a rivulet, and seeing a small house on the shutter of which was painted "cwrw," I went in, sat down on an old chair, which I found vacant, and said in English to an old woman who sat knitting by the window: "Bring me a pint of ale!" "Dim Saesneg!" said the old woman. "I told you to bring me a pint of ale," said I to her in her own language.
Instead of the pope, the gypsies and the bruisers of England, there were the vicarage cat, the bards and the thousand and one trivial incidents of the wayside. He has created the atmosphere of Wales as he did that of the gypsy encampment. He shows the jealous way in which the Welsh cling to their language, and their suspicion of the Saesneg, or Saxon.
I sent some pennillion to the editor for insertion and he did not insert them. Peth a clwir cenfigen yn Saesneg?" "We call cenfigen in English envy," said I; "but as I told you before, envy will not always prevail." "You cannot imagine how pleased I am with your company," said the man in grey. "Landlord, landlord!" "The greatest prydydd," said the man of the tattered hat, "the greatest prydydd."
"And what would be the use of asking him?" said another, "we have only Cumraeg, and he has only Saesneg."
I crossed the bridge, which, however diabolically fantastical it looked at a distance, seemed when one was upon it, capable of bearing any weight, and soon found myself by the farm-house past which the way led. An aged woman sat on a stool by the door. "A fine evening," said I in English. "Dim Saesneg;" said the aged woman.
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