Aye, and I have heard that many a fine young gentleman had a hand in the work, and went about at night at the head of a band dressed as Rebecca.

Well, sir, those breakings were acts of violence, I don't deny, but they did good, for the system is altered; such impositions are no longer practised at gates as were before the time of Rebecca." "Were any people ever taken up and punished for those nocturnal breakings ?" said I.
"No, sir; and I have heard say that nobody's being taken up was a proof that the rich approved of the work and had a hand in it." Night had come on by the time we reached the foot of the huge hills we had crossed in the morning.

We toiled up the ascent, and after crossing the level ground on the top, plunged down the bwlch between walking and running, occasionally stumbling, for we were nearly in complete darkness, and the bwlch was steep and stony.

We more than once passed people who gave us the n's da, the hissing night salutation of the Welsh.

At length I saw the Abbey looming amidst the darkness, and John Jones said that, we were just above the fountain.