CHAPTER XX.
Huw Morris--Immortal Elegy--The Valley of Ceiriog--Tangled Wilderness--Perplexity--Chair of Huw Morris--The Walking Stick--Huw's Descendant--Pont y Meibion.
Two days after the last adventure I set off, over the Berwyn, to visit the birth-place of Huw Morris under the guidance of John Jones, who was well acquainted with the spot.
Huw Morus or Morris, was born in the year 1622 on the banks of the Ceiriog.

His life was a long one, for he died at the age of eighty-four, after living in six reigns.

He was the second son of a farmer, and was apprenticed to a tanner, with whom, however, he did not stay till the expiration of the term of his apprenticeship, for not liking the tanning art, he speedily returned to the house of his father, whom he assisted in husbandry till death called the old man away.

He then assisted his elder brother, and on his elder brother's death, lived with his son.

He did not distinguish himself as a husbandman, and appears never to have been fond of manual labour.