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Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Unknown
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THE GIANTESS'S APRON-FULL.

A huge giant, in company with his wife, travelling towards the
island of Mona, with an intention of settling amongst the first
inhabitants that had removed there, and having been informed that
there was but a narrow channel which divided it from the continent,
took up two large stones, one under each arm, to carry with him as a
preparatory for making a bridge over this channel, and his lady had
her apron filled with small stones for the same purpose; but,
meeting a man on this spot with a large parcel of old shoes on his
shoulders, the giant asked him how far it was to Mona. The man
replied, that it was so far, that he had worn out those shoes in
travelling from Mona to that place. The giant on hearing this
dropped down the stones, one on each side of him, where they now
stand upright, about a hundred yards or more distant from each
other; the space between them was occupied by this Goliah's body.
His mistress at the same time opened her apron, and dropped down the
contents of it, which formed this heap.




GWRGAN FARFDRWCH'S FABLE.

Hear me, O ye Britons! On the top of a high rock in Arvon there
stood a goat, which a lion perceiving from the valley below,
addressed her in this manner:--

"My dearest neighbour, why preferrest thou that dry barren rock to
feed on? Come down to this charming valley, where thou mayest feed
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