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Wild Wales

CHAPTER XXXVII
10/22

I am a Welshman, and I know Englishmen consider all Welshmen hogs.

But we are not hogs, mind you! for we have little feelings which hogs have not.

Moreover, I would have you know that we have money, though perhaps not so much as the Saxon." Then putting his hand into his pocket, he pulled out a shilling, and giving it to the landlord, said in Welsh: "Now thou art paid, and mayst go thy ways till thou art again called for.

I do not know why thou didst stay after thou hadst put down the ale.

Thou didst know enough of me to know that thou didst run no risk of not being paid." "But," said I, after the landlord had departed, "I must insist on being my share.


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