350- A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



anecdote is recorded. That when he was 

 a young man, he made a ilone bench to 

 put at the door of his houfe, not far from 

 hence ; his wife's fitter was the firft who 

 fat upon it. " Molly", faid he, " you 

 " have fat firft upon this bench, and you 

 " muft pay me three kifles for it." The 

 demand was fatisfied. Sometime afterwards 

 his wife died, on which he went to Lon- 

 don; leaving his lifter-in-law, now mar- 

 ried, and her hufband. He entered the 

 parliament's army, where he obtained a 

 commiffion, and was in the army of Gene- 

 ral Monk at the reftoration of Charles II. 

 After having been from home many years, 

 and grown old, he returned to his native 

 country ; and going to his own houfe, one" 

 fine fummer's evening, he faw his fifter-in- 

 law, her hufband and children (all grown 

 up) fitting on the ftone bench, eating flum- 

 mery and milk. He afked them, in Eng- 



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