Page:My people stories of the peasantry of West Wales.djvu/47

 A HEIFER WITHOUT BLEMISH merchants assemble. One dealer came and offered tenpence three-farthings a pound; for him Nell refused to remove even the cloth from the mouth of the cask. Another came and offered tenpence half-penny; in reply to him Nell said: “Go your way, you fool. You would rob me pure.” Now the dealer was a young man, who did not know the ways of Castellybryn, and he was aware that the first dealer was a big buyer and a cunning bargainer; so he purchased the butter for elevenpence farthing a pound, being a farthing a pound above the market price of that day.

Tomos took the money and tied his handkerchief over it, and he bought a penny cake, and while he was eating it he said to Nell:

“How speak you about Dinas?” “Is the land well watered?” asked Nell.

“Iss, indeed.”