[Wild Wales by George Borrow]@TWC D-Link bookWild Wales CHAPTER XVII 9/18
Jones told me that in the church also there was the tomb of a great person of the name of Tyrwhitt. We passed on by various houses till we came nearly to the bottom of the valley.
Jones then pointing to a large house, at a little distance on the right, told me that it was a good gwesty, and advised me to go and refresh myself in it, whilst he went and carried home his work to the man who employed him, who he said lived in a farm-house a few hundred yards off.
I asked him where we were. "At Llyn Ceiriog," he replied. I then asked if we were near Pont Fadog; and received for answer that Pont Fadog was a good way down the valley, to the north-east, and that we could not see it owing to a hill which intervened. Jones went his way and I proceeded to the gwestfa, the door of which stood invitingly open.
I entered a large kitchen, at one end of which a good fire was burning in a grate, in front of which was a long table, and a high settle on either side.
Everything looked very comfortable.
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