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CHAPTER XII
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The name of my brother's wife, before she married, was also Jones." "Your brother is a clever man," said I.
"Yes, sir, for a Cumro he is clebber enough." "For a Cumro ?" "Yes, sir, he is not a Saxon, you know." "Are Saxons then so very clever ?" "Oh yes, sir; who so clebber?
The clebberest people in Llangollen are Saxons; that is, at carnal things--for at spiritual things I do not think them at all clebber.

Look at Mr A., sir." "Who is he ?" "Do you not know him, sir?
I thought everybody knew Mr A.

He is a Saxon, sir, and keeps the inn on the road a little way below where you live.

He is the clebberest man in Llangollen, sir.

He can do everything.


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