CHAPTER LVII.
The Newspaper--A New Walk--Pentre y Dwr--Oatmeal and Barley-Meal--The Man on Horseback--Heavy News.
"Dear me," said I to my wife, as I sat by the fire one Saturday morning, looking at a newspaper which had been sent to us from our own district, "what is this?
Why, the death of our old friend Dr -- -.

He died last Tuesday week after a short illness, for he preached in his church at -- - the previous Sunday." "Poor man!" said my wife.

"How sorry I am to hear of his death! However, he died in the fulness of years, after a long and exemplary life.

He was an excellent man and good Christian shepherd.

I knew him well; you I think only saw him once." "But I shall never forget him," said I, "nor how animated his features became when I talked to him about Wales, for he, you know, was a Welshman.