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 tevil can't come, as your honour fery wel knows."

"I am perfectly aware of it," said Mr. Escot.

"True, true," continued the Sexton; "put to pe sure, Owen Thomas of Morfa-Bach will have it, that one summer evening—when he went over to Cwm Cynfael in Meirionnydd, apout some cattles he wanted to puy—he saw a strange figure—pless us!—with five horns!—Cot save us! sittingon Hugh Llwyd's pulpit, which, your honour fery well knows, is a pig rock in the middle of the river"

"Of course he was mistaken," said Mr. Escot.

"To pe sure he was," said the Sexton. "For there is no toubt put the tevil, when Owen Thomas saw him, must have peen sitting on a piece of rock in a straight line from him on the other side of the river, where he