NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A Summer in North Wales 
By Mrs. Marcaret Louisa Rust 
“Now children, early to bed, we’re 
off to North Wales in the morning.” 
] think I can hear the cheery voice 
of father as he kissed us good night. 
Passing through the hall we noticed 
the pile of trunks, rugs, umbrellas, 
etc., and we were a happy group of 
children as our nursie tucked us into 
bed. We were all soon fast asleep, 
dreaming of the good old summer 
time. It was a beautiful morning in 
June when we started on our journey 
to Llangollen, a pretty little village 
in North Wales surrounded by hills 
and valleys. It was late in the day 
when we arrived at Fern Cottage, 
situated on a hill overlooking the 
River Dee, which runs through the 
village of Llangollen and is the de- 
light of summer visitors who can be 
seen here and there fishing along the 
banks of the river. Tea over and 
trunks unpacked, we were soon in 
dreamland. The next morning from 
our bedroom window we could see 
the ruins of an old castle which later 
_we had the pleasure of visiting. This 
was Castle Dinis-Bran, called by the 
Welsh, Crow Castle, and is situated 
on the top of a high mountain. It is 
reached by means of donkeys, going 
round and round until we reached the 
summit. Among the ruins of the 
castle was a little shop kept by an old 
woman, her only companions a dog 
and donkey. 
This old woman earned her living 
by selling lunches and books of views 
to the tourists. All the water she 
used had to be brought from the vil- 
lage in buckets hung across the don- 
key’s back and yet this old woman 
in her lonely Welsh home on_ the 
mountain top seemed quite contented. 
We also visited Church Castle, Bod- 
dawillen Castle and several other old 
ruins which are within a few hours’ 
reach of Llangollen. 
One day leaving the house unob- 
served, we strolled along the country 
lanes, passing by many old farm 
houses, also quaint little cottages, and 
gathering nuts from the hedges as 
we went along,—but, well, we were 
lost, yes surely lost, and things were 
beginning to look rather dark to us 
when coming slowly along the road 
we noticed an old woman. 
Sister and 
I ran towards her, “Please can you 
tell us where we are and how we can 
get home?” we asked, when to our 
great surprise she shook her head and 
said, “Dimsasnic, Dimsasnic” and 
toddled along her homeward way. 
“Oh dear, what a funny old woman” 
we cried. Sister said she must be a 
Gypsy and I,—well I didn’t know just 
what to think. We were getting very 
tired and gathering nuts and looking 
at the old farm houses had lost all in- 
terest for us when we saw an old man 
riding a donkey. Once more we asked 
if he could tell us the way home, but 
with the same shake of the head he 
replied, “Dimsasnic, Dimsasnic” and 
went along. “Oh, isn’t that a funny 
man, he said just the same as the old 
woman.” -By this time we were both 
crying and sitting down by the road- 
side vowed never again to steal a 
march on our nurse. We were very 
hungry and tired and as it was late 
in the day when we started it was 
getting dark. “Hark, here comes 
some one,’ and looking around we 
saw our nurse running-towards us 
calling out “Tidama, Tidama” mean- 
ing “come here.” Once more at home 
our only punishment was a kiss and 
hug from mother and we found out 
the funny old man and woman of 
whom we had asked our way home 
were Welsh and that ‘“Dimsasnic” 
was “Don’t understand.” 
I have travelled many thousand 
miles since then but have never 
found a place where the Sabbath was 
so strictly observed as in the little 
village of Llangollen, so peaceful and 
quiet, and here and there could be 
heard a church bell in the distance. 
Here also, is the home of “The 
Maids of Llangollen” about which 
there is quite a history. 
Well, the summer is drawing to a 
close and we are off to our English 
home in the morning, so good bye to 
the Welsh mountains, the River Dee, 
the Welsh lamb and mint sauce, and 
the funny old man and woman who 
shake their heads and say, “ Dimsas- 
nic, Dimsasnic.” 
In ANOTHER SENSE 
Figg—Well, how do you like hav- 
ing a place in the country? MHasn’t 
the exercise done you good? 
Fogg—Yes, and so has the real es- 
tate agent, 
A CAsE oF HEREDITY 
Clinton—I suppose your little ones 
ask you many embarrassing ques- 
tions ?” : 
Clubleigh—Yes, they are just like 
their mother, 
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