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and do a lovely step dance on it, and I've seen him dance in the fields, midday, on the floor of the waiting cart he'd dance any- where There was no hard and fast division 'twixt Church and Chapel, they all went to both, and members of a family might be mixed, some calling themselves church, some chapel. On the other hand there was bitter antagonism between the villages of Horton and Porteynon, each looking down on the other with scorn. One anecdote of the oyster fishing days Jenkins of Oxwich, when he got his pay for the season's catch, turned it all into pence, took it home, put his little daughter in a sack and poured the money in and said, There now, you can say you was once buried in money We had Evidence and No Doubt by J. E. Ross SINCE HIS DEATH there has been much argument about Dylan Thomas's medical history, some going so far as to accuse him of deliberate self-destruction and others praising his courage in a losing struggle with ill-health. It may be of interest therefore, since records seem hard to trace, to quote two people who knew him from the beginning, his mother and Mrs. Gillian Williams, the midwife who attended her at his birth. The photograph of Mrs. Williams, now 86 years old, was taken last summer. At the turn of the century Mrs. Williams (then Jones) was in charge of the St. Thomas, Danygraig, Foxhole and Pentrechwyth areas. She had trained on the district helping Dr. Spencer, Dr. Hawkins and Dr. E. B. Evans, father of Dr. Alban Evans, who later looked after Dylan. She studied in her free time and after qualifying became one of the first district nurses paid by the Town Council. From the grocery shop near Canaan Chapel where she lived Nurse Jones walked to her patients through the grounds of the Grenfell Mansion (the family allowed her a special key to save her a long walk) or rode off in the doctor's carriage if the case was urgent. Often she crossed the docks alone, walking from ship to ship if her services were needed, her bonnet and cape guaranteeing safe passage in the toughest areas. One of Nurse Jones's friends was Florence Williams, of Delhi Street, the youngest child of a Harbour Trust employee, a great Canaanite She was a very pretty girl. After her marriage to