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 So Adam came home with blood on his chin, hence Bern-Davydd knew that Joshua Llanwen had performed his services faithfully; and on many occasions Joshua chastised Adam with his tongue, and his fists, and with the oaken club he employed to break in horses. Yet Adam would not leave off courting Lissi.

One night Bern-Davydd and his son Lamech spoke to Adam of their grief.

Bern-Davydd said: “Uncomfortable you make us. There’s little you show yourself in the sight of Capel Sion.” “Mouth you to us now,” said Lamech, “that you will let the bad wench be.”

“Iss, say you like that,” said Puah. “Think you the Big Man has chosen such as Lissi to be a Bern-Davydd?”

“Little people,” answered Adam, “shortsighted you be then. Expect you, Lamech, the Big Father to perform a miracle with Puah as He did with Sara? Will she conceive and bear for you a