11/14 The wheel now ceased turning, and the man with the adze turned his face full upon me--he was a stern-looking, dark man, with black hair, of about forty; after a moment or two he said that if I chose to walk into the house I should be welcome. He then conducted us into the house, a common-looking stone tenement, and bade us be seated. I asked him if he was a descendant of Huw Morus; he said he was; I asked him his name, which he said was Huw--. "Have you any of the manuscripts of Huw Morus ?" said I. The book was the first volume of the common Wrexham edition of Huw's works; it was much thumbed--I commenced reading aloud a piece which I had much admired in my boyhood. |