He is a great cook, and can wash clothes better than any woman.

Oh, sir, for carnal things, who so clebber as your countrymen!" After walking about four miles by the side of the canal we left it, and bearing to the right presently came to the aqueduct, which strode over a deep and narrow valley, at the bottom of which ran the Dee.

"This is the Pont y Cysswllt, sir," said my guide; "it's the finest bridge in the world, and no wonder, if what the common people say be true, namely that every stone cost a golden sovereign." We went along it; the height was awful.

My guide, though he had been a mountain shepherd, confessed that he was somewhat afraid.

"It gives me the pendro, sir," said he, "to look down." I too felt somewhat dizzy, as I looked over the parapet into the glen.