earth with a hheavy thuddw. Absalom withdrew the bbloody Capel
Curig from the dying Llandudno, and wiping yt on his Penygwryd,
replaced yt yn his pocket for future possible use.

The local Dolwyddelan approached, and ordered a detachment of Tan-
y-Bulchs to remove the corpse of the Llandudno. With a shudder we
saw him borne to his last rrest, for we realized that had yt not
bbeen for Absalom's Capel Curig we had bbeen bburied yn an
unpronounceable Welsh ggrave.



PENELOPE IN DEVON



We are in Bristol after a week's coaching in Wales; the Jack
Copleys, Tommy Schuyler, Mrs. Jack's younger brother, and Miss Van
Tyck, Mrs. Jack's "Aunt Celia," who played a grim third in that
tour of the English Cathedrals during which Jack Copley was
ostensibly studying architecture but in reality courting Kitty
Schuyler. Also there is Bertram Ferguson, whom we call "Atlas"
because he carries the world on his shoulders, gazing more or less
vaguely and absent-mindedly at all the persons and things in the
universe not in need of immediate reformation.

We had journeyed by easy stages from Liverpool through Carnarvon,
Llanberis, Penygwyrd, Bettws-y-Coed, Beddgelert, and Tan-y-Bulch.
Arriving finally at Dolgelly, we sent the coach back to Carnarvon
and took the train to Ross,--the gate of the Wye,--from whence we