CHAPTER XXXI.
Start for Anglesey--The Post-Master--Asking Questions--Mynydd Lydiart--Mr Pritchard--Way to Llanfair.
When I started from Bangor, to visit the birth-place of Gronwy Owen, I by no means saw my way clearly before me.

I knew that he was born in Anglesey in a parish called Llanfair Mathafarn eithaf, that is St Mary's of farther Mathafarn--but as to where this Mathafarn lay, north or south, near or far, I knew positively nothing.

Passing through the northern suburb of Bangor I saw a small house in front of which was written "post-office" in white letters; before this house underneath a shrub in a little garden sat an old man reading.

Thinking that from this person, whom I judged to be the post-master, I was as likely to obtain information with respect to the place of my destination as from any one, I stopped, and taking off my hat for a moment, inquired whether he could tell me anything about the direction of a place called Llanfair Mathafarn eithaf.

He did not seem to understand my question, for getting up he came towards me and asked what I wanted: I repeated what I had said, whereupon his face became animated.
"Llanfair Mathafarn eithaf!" said he.