CHAPTER V 



ON THE ITHON, LLANDRINDOD WELLS 

 July 2, 1898 



MAY say that accident rather than pre-, 

 meditated design led me to spend my 

 summer holidays at Llandrindod Wells, 

 which, though strictly speaking in South Wales, 

 may be said to be in Mid- Wales in Radnorshire. 

 An old adage, quoted in the guide-book, says 



" There's neither park nor deer in Radnorshire, 

 Nor a man worth five hundred a year, 

 Except Sir William Fowler of Abbey Cwmhir." 



I remember an old farmer quoting it, some sixty 

 years ago, rather differently 



" There's never a park and never a deer, 

 And never a squire in Radnorshire, 

 But old Squire Rogers of Abbey Cwmhir." 



I do not think that either adage applies to the 

 Radnorshire of to-day. I may add that Abbey 

 Cwmhir is a small ruin, on one side of which is a 

 pretty lake, formed by the river Clewedog, where, 

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