away from him, threw at him the bridle that was in his hand, which
unluckily fell on poor Penelope. She disappeared in an instant, and
he never saw her afterwards, but heard her voice in the window of
his room one night after, requesting him to take care of the
children, in these words:--

"Rhag bod anwyd ar fy mab,
Yn rhodd rhowch arno gob ei dad:
Rhag bod anwyd ar liw'r cann,
Rhoddwch arni bais ei mam."

That is,

"Oh! lest my son should suffer cold,
Him in his father's coat infold:
Lest cold should seize my darling fair,
For her, her mother's robe prepare."

These children and their descendants they say were called Pellings
[1], a word corrupted from their mother's name Penelope.

[1] In England we frequently meet with the surname Pilling and
Billing; it might have happened, that a man had met with an English
woman of that name, and had married her, and, as is usual in brides,
she might have been, though married, called by her maiden name, and
the appellation might have been continued to her posterity.--
_Authors Note_.

The name Billing and Belling is the family name of one of the oldest
Cornish (Keltic) families--a fact that suggests other possibilities.