behave better and become a better man you'll find it will be to your
benefit," and they all disappeared as quickly as they had come.

The old blacksmith thought a good deal about what the fairies had
told him, and he left off drinking, and became a sober, steady man.

One day, a few months after meeting the little people, a strange man
brought a horse to be shod. Nobody knew either the horse or the man.

The old blacksmith tied the horse to a hole in the lip of a cauldron
(used for the purpose of cooling his hot iron) that he had built in
some masonry.

When he had tied the horse up he went to shoe the off hind-leg, but
directly he touched the horse the spirited animal started back with
a bound, and dragged the cauldron from the masonry, and then it
broke the halter and ran away out of the forge, and was never seen
again: neither the horse nor its master.

When the old blacksmith came to pull down the masonry to rebuild it,
he found three brass kettles full of money.




OLD GWILYM.

Old Gwilym Evans started off one fine morning to walk across the
Eagle Hills to a distant town, bent upon buying some cheese. On his
way, in a lonely part of the hills, he found a golden guinea, which