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asked in the Seiet to bear testimony, spoke these words:

“Do you be glad with me that the Big Man has inspired my son Samuel to noise abroad His Word. Has not the Lord been good to me then? You all know that Shan is a miscarrying woman. Yet, lo, He blesses her iniquity. Mouth you this miracle throughout all the land.”

In due season he went to Castellybryn and said to the Chief Teacher of the School of Grammar: “Mishtir bach, make you room for my son Samuel, the child the Big Husband sent in answer to my groanings.” The day of the Harvest Fair he journeyed there again, and he drove before him a cow in calf, and one part of the money he got for the animal he gave to the Chief Teacher, and with the other part he caused to be made for Samuel a preacher’s coat, which is of shiny black material.