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of that name; but the Baptist has two associa- tions in a Year and I have been at sevl of them. They generally dispute on controverted points, and there seemed to be a rent among them of late, some Calvinist or particular Baptist and the other Arminians or General Baptist; but they live in great harmony, but the particular Baptist wont Commune with their other brethren; but the. Methodist who are all followers of Mr. Wesley, and the Presbiterians commune together though n. ISAAC'S audience at the shoemaker's shop by the bridge never failed him, nor, be it admit- ted, did his unrivalled gift to hold that audience nature, imagination, and experience had all combined to make him the undisputed champion story-teller of the parish. He had been born about the middle of the last century, and after knocking about a great deal and showing an infinite capacity for parting with his money, he had come towards the end of the century to spend a long evening of life with his widowed sister on a farm. Neither his record nor his inclination fitted him to make a mark at chapel gatherings therefore the nondescript changing audience that gathered at Ianto the shoemaker's from night to night was the only one left to him. In his youth he had felt a great attraction for quaint characters and adventurers, and from many of the itinerant pedlars he had obtained stories as miscellaneous as their wares. These stories he retailed-he re- touched them, it is true, as every artist does, but through it all one could detect at times pieces of raw experience, snatches of genuine folk-song, or a ballad couplet of ancient lineage. There were obvious limits to local gossip in a representative gathering, so after a half-hearted survey of parish affairs the company would all turn to Isaac, who held the tittle-tattle of the parish in contempt, and ask him to retell some of the old familiar items. The favourite among his stock-in-trade was the description of the battle of Waterloo, especially the stand of the British squares. He had heard that description from an old soldier of the Crimea whose uncle had fought under Wellington in the Peninsula, and even from the lips of that old veteran the events of Waterloo were far more vivid than his own personal experiences outside Sebastopol. Isaac, too, had preferred the earlier story, and his version by frequent retellings had attained a definite and polished form. Whenever the story tended to become stale, a war would break out somewhere to give additional interest they differ in Sentiments about particular points. The Quakers are so particular that they wont allow any of their members to have Negroes in possession. They dont hold with Slavery. The Methodist will expel a Member for buying and selling a Slave though they wont expel them for haveing them, and I am of the opinion that there will be an act of Congress to set them free. But what it will be or what will be done with them I am not able to say". LITTLE TALES by T. Hughes Jones to it: so far as the shoemaker's shop was con- cerned, wars were a special dispensation of Provi- dence to revive Isaac's story of the battle of Waterloo. As a plot can assume many different forms, so this story, as occasion demanded, was successfully located in South Africa, Korea, and the Balkans, and the formation and the valour of the British squares were assigned impartially to soldiers from Japan and Greece. At the end of the war, after that brief excursion into romance, he would come back to the reality of Wellington, and Waterloo, and the British square, and the front rank knelt with the bayonets point- ing upwards, and the second rank The Great War seemed to offer great possibili- ties, and Isaac speedily adapted his tales to the occasion. With the help of the map in "Baner ac Amserau Cymru" and of his own high imagina- tion, he carried on valiantly as the local "eye- witness". But the difficulties were great; strange names appeared in the communiques-names that he could not find on the map-strange methods of warfare were hinted at, and new engines of des- truction were mentioned. Once, indeed, his repu- tation nearly collapsed-when Twm Pensarn came home on leave. Only two had gone to the army from the parish Twm was one, the other was Sam Glanrhyd. Sam was out in France, and had been wounded Twm had never left the shores of this island, but his talk was bombastic and boast- ful. He interrupted Isaac one night,-the first night he was at home-interrupted him with strange oaths, and flatly contradicted him. The company parted that night in sadness and in con- fusion. The shoemaker's shop was without Isaac for a week his place was taken by Twm, whose newly-won supremacy spurred him on to further bombast. The last night of his leave coincided with the first night of Sam's leave from France, and Twm was hopeful of great achievements with the help of this ally. But it was soon obvious that Sam resented his arrogant garrulity, and when