LLEWELYN'S GELERT. 77 



Nor scathe had he, nor harm, nor dread, 



But the same couch beneath 

 Lay a gaunt ■wolf, all torn and dead. 



Tremendous still in death. 



Ah I what was now Llewelyn's pain ? 



For now the tnith was clear. 

 His gallant hound the wolf had slain 



To save Llewelyn's heir. 



In order to mitigate his offence Llewelyn built this 

 chapel, and raised a tomb to poor Gelert, and the spot 

 to this day is called Beth-Gelert, or the grave of 

 Gelert. 



The last wolf 'seen in Scotland was at the 

 latter end of the seventeenth century, about the reign 

 of Charles 11. One of these ferocious animals had in- 

 flicted great ravages among the flocks in Argyleshire, 

 and in consequence of the great complaints made by 

 the farmers, two gentlemen, brothers, resolved to make 

 every exertion to find the haunt of the wolf. They at 

 length discovered in an almost inaccessible rocky place 

 this she wolf's retreat. On entering this cave where she 

 had made her habitation they found her cubs, which 

 they immediately dispatched. On their perceiving that 

 the wolf was absent, the elder brother took his station at 

 the mouth of the cave, armed with a long spear to kill 

 her as she entered, and his brother coming instantl}' to 

 his assistance with his sword, the wolf was very soon 

 destroyed, to the great joy of the surrounding neigh- 

 bourhood. 



