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 “Vile is Adam to covet the flesh of a poorhouse brat.” “Doleful is my heart and anxious,” said Lamech.

“Go you and tell our father about this madness,” observed Puah.

Lamech opened his Bible for spiritual guidance; he read aloud these words: “Ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.” “Throw you your light of wisdom on the speech, Lamech,” said Puah.

“The Big Man means that it’s better for others to tell our father. Adam may plead that what we say is not true, and we will be rebuked. Let some cunning one go and bear witness.”

Puah tied her wide bonnet strings under her chin, and drew on her feet her elastic-side boots, and went to Llanwen and told Joshua to go and inform her father-in-law of the wickedness of Adam.

“For why he is so blind, Respected