I am his bailiff, and this man is a carpenter who is here doing a job for him." Here ensued a pause, which was broken by the man of the hat saying in English, to the man of the cap: "Who can this strange fellow be?
he has not a word of English, and though he speaks Welsh his Welsh sounds very different from ours.

Who can he be ?" "I am sure I don't know," said the other.
"I know who he is," said the first, "he comes from Llydaw, or Armorica, which was peopled from Britain estalom, and where I am told the real old Welsh language is still spoken." "I think I heard you mention the word Llydaw ?" said I, to the man of the hat.
"Ah," said the man of the hat, speaking Welsh, "I was right after all; oh, I could have sworn you were Llydaweg.

Well, how are the descendants of the ancient Britons getting on in Llydaw ?" "They are getting on tolerably well," said I, "when I last saw them, though all things do not go exactly as they could wish." "Of course not," said he of the hat.

"We too have much to complain of here; the lands are almost entirely taken possession of by Saxons, wherever you go you will find them settled, and a Saxon bird of the roof must build its nest in Gwyn dy." "You call a sparrow in your Welsh a bird of the roof, do you not ?" said I.
"We do," said he of the hat.

"You speak Welsh very well considering you were not born in Wales.