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 That old blockhead of a Schoolin’ knows nothing.” “Grand will be if we send him to the School of Grammar in Castellybryn.”

“Iss, dear me.”

“Holy joy will be to listen to him preach the Word.”

“Sam bach will make every one weep with his eloquence.” Owen called his son to him.

“Stand you on an old chair,” he said to him, “and say out a small hymn and make a bit of prayer.”

When the lad finished, Owen said: “Well done, little boy bach clever. Did I not think I was in Capel Sion?”

“Pretty his speech,” exclaimed Shan. “Heard you how he sang, ‘Be with Thy nice servant bach in the Temple of Sion, prosper his work among the sinful congregation’?” Samuel passed the seventh standard in the School of Lloyd, whereat Owen,