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 Capel Sion if Dan weds an old foreign leech?” Shaci went out, and while he was labouring he thought out a device and he came into the house to take counsel of his wife.

This is what he said to Mali: “Hearken to my speech, now, Mali fach. I will, dear me, go to Mistress Morgan Post and ask her to send a little telegram to Dan saying, ‘Remember Capel Sion, Dan bach.’” “Why speak so wasteful?” Mali replied. “Six red pennies old telegrams cost, and is not Mistress Morgan meanly? She won’t take a small penny off the price.” “True-true. Iss, indeed.”

Night came on, and Shaci read the words with which Moses praised the Big Man for the deliverance of the children of Israel from the hands of the Egyptians.

But Mali did not hear anything of that which Shaci said under the open chimney