tightbelly

Updated: May 2, 2025

Then appears Howel Tightbelly, the miser, who in capital verse, with very considerable glee and exultation, gives an account of his manifold rascalities. Then comes his wife, Esther Steady, home from the market, between whom and her husband there is a pithy dialogue.

George Henry Borrow - Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery