My Neighbors / Stories of the Welsh People

is in the field of a certain man. Hearing of that which she had done, the man commanded his

ed: "Why for is my spring barren?

d, what is in your

red, "not to know what I throw out. Go

at he wanted. Tailor Club Foot came to sit on his table to sew together garments for him and

at you do, Club Fo

the tailo

ied. "But speak to goodness where the place

s in the hollow of the hill which

n his colt, and he said to Shan Rhydw

an cried; "no fat pi

d about grand pigs Tyhen. No odds, wench

where you are

s carried me. Carry a preac

ay to your horse, and rest you a

at. Thirsty is the b

he put artful questions to Shan. In the evening he said to Catrin: "Quite tidy is Rhydwen.

his utterance: "Farmer very ordinary is your s

answered the owner. "Speak

e the poor-place. Three-fourths of the cost I give in

in tillage; and he and Catrin came to abide in Rhydwen; and they arrived with horses in carts, cows, a bull and oxen, and their sons, Aben and Dan. As they passed C

away from them; and he and Catrin toiled to recover Rhydwen from its slovenry. After he had pai

ght him to free them, and in freeing them he made compacts to his advantage. Thus he came to have more cattle than Rhydwen

hes on the land of Rhydwen; "so that," he sai

which is sometimes before death, he summoned to h

out of joy among the

n Sion," said Dan. "Speak you a l

remiah demanded. "Born first you were, Aben,

d, "not right that you l

ished his brother. "Wise you are, fath

ough the way of the gate. "Religious you lived, father Sheremiah, and reli

ything is water." He died, and his sons washed him and clothed him in a White Shirt of the dead, and clipped off his long beard, which ceasing

on. They mowed their hay and reaped their corn at separate periods, so that one could help the other; if one needed the loan of anything he would borrow it from his brother; if one's

against the barnyard-which is at the forehead of his house-water sp

rous man. There was no water in any of the ditches of Rhydwen and none in those of Penlan. But the spring which Dan had found

in this wise: "Serious sur

"Good is the Big Man t

'Unfasten your pond and let

him before he goes

? Travel under would the water and hap spout up in my close. Nice tha

, and let the water come into the di

ox? One eye bach I have, but you have two, and can see all his wickedness. Make you him pay the cost." He raised his voice so high that t

to his brother's damage. In heavy darkness he cut the halters which held Dan's cows and horses to their stalls and

e you the old water," he

," Aben censured him.

ied. "Like would I that he tur

mouth," ans

through the leg of a smo

an of all the benefits whic

nd some said this: "A dirty ass is the mule." His fierce wrath was not allayed albeit Dan turned the co

n ordered, "and fill

would not hearken unto his brother. He deliberated with a lawyer, and Dan was made to dig a ditch straightway from the spr

harvest, Dan bach." He held his tongue, because he had nothing to say. His affliction pressed upon him so heavily that

nto a field and sat as one astonished until the light of day paled. Then he aro