Welsh Journals

4gg Old Prices Remains. episode of Pag and the Lady, in the last N°, naturally leads us, by a hop, step, and jump at once from slugs to crabs—from tender Nudibranchs to hard Crustacea. The transition, however violent, will be pardoned on the score of variety; and we will begin with the "party" that led us away from the Mollusca by his impertinence to a fair member of the family—the "said " Pag." His name in full is Pagurus; which I should render Fixtail, for a reason to be explained, "by-and-by." My first introduc¬ tion to him and his tail was on board the Bonnie Kate, a substantial yacht of the late Co1- Lloyd, of Marie, who delighted not only to fish for turbot and other flats in Red Wharf Bay, but also to catch, at the then " Conwy Ferry," sundry and divers odd fish in the shape of Artists, Authors, authors et hoc genus omne, who found a hearty welcome at that most hospitable and picturesque ruin, which I think must, from the great number of coincident features, have furnished the idea for T. Hood's " Haunted House". The wind not serving for Traeth Coch Bay, we had to content ourselves with trawling on the Dutchman's Bank and other soft ground in the neighbourhood of Puffin Island and Penmaen Mawr; whilst hooks and lines were, on sufferance, let down for grey gurnards and an occasional chance of dogfish, which Jack the Barber,* (de facto the Coi's right hand man, though a quiet Anglesey tar, was, de jure, Capt. of the Bonnie Kate,) assured me he had seen swim¬ ming about with a litter of "little dogs" (cwn bach), a ses trousscs; a living personification of the " Bitch and whelps" rocks, S. Wales! The trawl went down again and again, and came up exhibiting results which ill accor¬ ded with the favourable ground indicated by broken shells * John Jones, afterwards (and still ?) landlord of the Conwy Castle Inn, Aberconwy