Was Gethin so very wicked ?" "Wicked?
No," said Sara, "never wicked.

Wild and mischievous and full of pranks he was, but the truest, the kindest boy in the world was Gethin Owens Garthowen." "And Will ?" "Will was a good boy always, but I never loved him as I loved the other.

Gethin had a bad character because he stole the apples from the orchard, and he took Phil Graig's boat one day without asking leave, and there was huboob all over the village, and his father was mad with anger, and threatened to give him a thrashing; but in the evening Gethin brought the boat back quite safely.

He had been as far as Ynysoer, and he brought back a creel full of fish for Phil, to make up.
Phil made a good penny by the fish, and forgave the boy bach; but his father was thorny to Gethin for a long time.

Then at last he did something--I never knew what--that offended his father bitterly, and he was sent away, and never came back again." "Mother," said Morva solemnly, "I have found out what he did.