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probably was churchwarden, and sanctified while 

 he indulged his predatory instincts by going round 

 with the plate. There seemed something signifi- 

 cant in the fact that his dagger is carved on a 

 stone just outside the church : did he, we won- 

 dered, employ it as a discourager of threepenny- 

 bits and a stimulator to half-crowns. At all 

 events, he is now the next thing to a saint in 

 Corwen, and his works any inhabitant can tell 

 with chapter and verse in a manner which it is 

 not our intention to vie with. 



Among other chief tenets of Corwen morality 

 is the necessity of seeing Llangollen. We had, 

 indeed, been ourselves something fired by quo- 

 tations from Wordsworth and other competent 

 judges in the guide-book, and yielding to the 

 serious representations of the landlady on the 

 subject, we ordered a small trap in which we 

 might thither drive ourselves and the drab 

 Tommy. As we sat in the embrasure of the 

 coffee-room window, waiting for the entrapped 

 Tommy, we perceived a vehicle resembling a 



