Welsh Journals

Leviora. 501 We bought a promising young mare, our precious Neck and Crop. I axed for her character ; well, it was most wonderful! I might have guessed at summat, if I hadn't been too dull. Her virtues was too numerous for any mortal beast— For every nail in all four shoes, she'd two or three at least! For getting on thro' thick and thin, she'd qualities most rare ; And as for drawing—" she, in fact, was *talked of every¬ where." They warranted her, wind and limb, as sound as any roach, And Chester Billy, he could swear she'd always beat his coach ! "As for er oyes, just look," says they, "er oyes is in er skull ; And count er teeth, mon, if you loike, you'll foind 'em theer in full,— Strange to relate, in these foive years, shoo's never lost a leg! Her tail, (shoo never had but one,) do look for that, I beg." Now them there chaffing Yorkshire chaps, so funnily they spoke, I doubted partly if they was in earnest, or in joke. I was in earnest, so I gev, as earnest, haif a crown : And shortly, at the Market Inn, I paid the money down. We tried her once in harness, and that once was quite enough ; Her got one leg outside the shaft, and kicked the trap to stuff! * " Tynny ? ! mae son am dani hi ym mhob man," said John Roberts of Hendre, on a like occasion, of a mare who, by a remarkable coincidence, served his purchaser the very same trick!