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 to the generations that have passed away in those villages, and they are witnesses to this day of the beauty of the design and of the instinctive skill which a Welshman in the early, the 9th, 10th, and 11th centuries possessed. I shall be extremely glad when villagers themselves, or those who have left villages and prospered in the world and go back again, realise what a service they do to a village if they help to raise, not perhaps a village cross, but some form of village monument to those who either in the village or out of it have done credit to their birthplace and service to humanity.

I was one day last summer in an out-of-the-way little village, called Llansannan, which is considered to be a completely out-of-the-world place. There you find at the present day some of the most characteristic Welshmen of the whole of Wales. There you find a certain freshness and vigour of spirit and of activity and a great deal of splendid conservatism on the part of the villagers and the peasants, and I felt as I looked upon the open square of the little village that it would