176 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



how'd thee like to go to Ameriky ? " As we were thus intro- 

 duced, she glanced fiercely at us, and we retreated at once with- 

 out the door. He tried for a moment longer to brave her, and 

 called loudly for another mug of ale. She turned her head to 

 the bar-maid, and said, " You'll get no more ale ! " and the bar- 

 maid minded her. 



She said he had been there before this morning, and when he 

 began drinking in the morning, it was always the last of him for 

 the day. He whimpered out that he had come home and break- 

 fast wasn't ready, and he hadn't anything else to do but to come 

 back here. It was ready, she said, and he might have been 

 looking for some work, and so on. In a few minutes they went 

 off, arm in arm. 



Opposite the inn was an old church and a graveyard. There 

 were more monkey-faces on the church, and two effigies in stone, 

 of knights the forms of their bodies, with shields, barely dis- 

 tinguishable, and their faces entirely effaced. Many of the 

 gravestones had inscriptions in Welsh, and both here and at 

 Wrexham I noticed the business of the deceased person was 

 given ; as, John Johnes, Wheelright ; Wittiam Lloyd, Tanner, etc. 

 On a flat stone near the church, the following was inscribed 

 (letter for letter), perhaps by a Welsh stone-cutter following an 

 English order, given verbally " This his the end of the vault" 



Returning from the church, we found the currier again drink- 

 ing beer in the tap-room, with a number of other men, a drunken 

 set, who probably had come passengers by a "stage-wagon" that 

 stood in the road. This was an immense vehicle, of pre-railroad 

 origin, like our Pennsylvania wagons, but heavier and higher. 

 It had a heavy freight of barrels, cases, and small parcels, on the 

 top of which, under the canvass-hooped cover, a few passengers 

 were cheaply accommodated, there being a ladder in the rear for 

 \ them to ascend by. Behind one of the hind-wheels was a roller, 



