Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Henry Borrow
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"We do not."
"To chapel?" "In fine weather." "Are you happy?" "When there is bread in the house and no cryd we are all happy." "Farewell to you, children." "Farewell to you, gentleman!" exclaimed both. "I have learnt something," said I, "of Welsh cottage life and feeling from that poor sickly child." I had passed the first and second of the hills which stood on the left, and a huge long mountain on the right which confronted both, when a young man came down from a gully on my left hand, and proceeded in the same direction as myself. He was dressed in a blue coat and corduroy trowsers, and appeared to be of a condition a little above that of a labourer. He shook his head and scowled when I spoke to him in English, but smiled on my speaking Welsh, and said: "Ah, you speak Cumraeg: I thought no Sais could speak Cumraeg." I asked him if he was going far. "About four miles," he replied. "On the Bangor road?" |
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