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The lady's "wicked Welshman"—I suppose she remembered the well-known line anent the sons of the Cymri—"Taffy is a Welshman, Taffy is a thief"— is no Cambrian, but an aborigine of Leek, Staffordshire, England, and was from 1888 to 1848 an excise officer in her majesty's In-