WILLIAM KDWAIiDS, I'.HIIHiK IH'ILDKK. 



but lie always longed to do bettor. Some masons having 

 come into the neighbourhood to build a smithy, Edwards 

 would occasionally leave his farm-work and takr his stand 

 in the field over against which the masons were employe* 1. 



XM EDWARDS. [By M. Morgan ] 



on o-er ly watching them while they worked. He admired 

 tlir way in which they handled their tools and prepared 

 the stones for the building. One thing that he particu- 

 larly noted was the way in which they dressed the rough 

 blocks by means of the pointed end of the mason's 



