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hole beliind tlie house called 7\vll arvau cant o 

 tvyr, where it was supposed that the arms were 

 concealed ; and after the departure of the Pughs 

 to Coytmor, among* other things left behind, was 

 an old trunk, which the tenants and some of their 

 neighbours opened, and found therein a withered 

 hand, which is supposed to have been one of the 

 members of this same priest. 



As these traditionary accounts are generally 

 interesting, I shall make no apology for inserting 

 another, still more curious, relating to Penrhyn, 

 the truth of which seems never to have been doubt- 

 ed by the neighbourhood. At the time of the 

 following occurrence, the family at Penrhyn con- 

 sisted of a son and two daughters ; the former, 

 according to the practice of the age, went on his 

 travels abroad ; but before he set out, he took the 

 precaution of putting a needle between one of the 

 joists and the ceiling in the little kitchen, and he 

 also drove the tooth of a harrow into a pear tree in 

 the orchard. After a lapse of many years, and all 

 hopes of his return being given over, he arrived 

 a beggar, and coming home he found his parents 

 dead, and his sisters in possession of his property. 

 He stated who he was ; but the sisters insisted 



