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mustering his English vocabulary, "it wass two 

 times also I wass on taap." 



" He means he's been up once already to-day ! " 

 expounded Miss O'Flannigan in a whisper, whose 

 breathlessness was doubtless caused by her sur- 

 prise. Griffith Roberts must himself be kin to 

 the wild cats if he could go up Snowdon twice 

 in the day at a speed of four miles an hour, and 

 I began to admit to myself that a guide of this 

 description might perhaps be thrown away upon 

 us. Something infirm, with asthma, we would 

 gladly have put up with ; we should even have 

 overlooked a club-foot. At about this period the 

 cart-track began to show symptoms of having 

 had enough, and of wanting to turn back. Fad- 

 ingly it led us to a wall and a wicket-gate, such as 

 occurs in ' The Pilgrim's Progress,' and it and its 

 grassy ruts were seen no more. 



That which replaced it was a simple adaptation 

 of the bed of a stream to the uses of a road. Dry 

 it certainly was, but whether the bed of a stream 

 be wet or dry, it is not easy to walk upon. We 



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