Can you read ?" "I can, sir." "Have you any books ?" "I have the Bible, sir." "Will you show it me ?" "Willingly, sir." Then getting up she took a book from a shelf and handed it to me, at the same time begging me to enter the house and sit down.

I declined, and she again took her seat and resumed her occupation.

On opening the book the first words which met my eye were: "Gad i mi fyned trwy dy dir!--Let me go through your country" (Numb.XX.

22).
"I may say these words," said I, pointing to the passage.

"Let me go through your country." "No one will hinder you, sir, for you seem a civil gentleman." "No one has hindered me hitherto.