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R. Rice Davies. The Cambrian Sketch-Book: Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales
The Cambrian Sketch-Book: Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ASCENT OF SNOWDON
A STORY OF DUNRAVEN CASTLE IN THE OLDEN TIMES; OR, GOD’S JUDGMENT AGAINST WRECKERS
THE PROEM
CHAPTER I. THE LOVERS
CHAPTER II. A NOBLE RESOLVE NOBLY CARRIED OUT
CHAPTER III. THE ALLIANCE OF THE LORD OF DUNRAVEN WITH MAC THE DEVIL, AND SOME OFITS RESULTS
CHAPTER IV. THE TERRIBLE DOOM
PARSON JONES, AND HIS CONQUESTS OVER THE ARCH-FIEND OF PANDEMONIUM
PARSON JONES’S TALE OF NAT THE SMITH AND THE THREE WISHES
CADWGAN WYNN; OR THE. LOST INHERITANCE REGAINED
CHAPTER I. SHADE AND LIGHT—SORROW—BUT HOPE IN SORROW
CHAPTER II. AN INHERITANCE LOST, BUT A FRIEND FOUND
CHAPTER III. THE WIDE WORLD
CHAPTER IV. THE VICTORY OF INNOCENCE
CHAPTER V. THE RIGHT MAN COMING AT THE RIGHT TIME
CHAPTER VI. VIRTUE REWARDED
CHAPTER VII. THE LOST INHERITANCE REGAINED
TRADITIONS OF LLYN SAVATHAN; OR LLANGORSE, OR TALYLLYN LAKE
CHAPTER I. TRADITIONS OF GIRALDUS
CHAPTER II. THE LAST WARNING
CHAPTER III. THE FATAL BANQUET; OR, VENGEANCE AT HAND
TREFFYNNON; OR, LEGENDS OF SAINT WINIFRED
THE VISIT OF ELIDORUS TO THE FAIRY KINGDOM BENEATH THE BAY
CEFN-Y-BEDD; OR, A. VISIT TO THE SHRINE OF LLEWELYN AB. GRUFFYDD, THE LAST CAMBRIAN KING
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS
NOTES
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R. Rice Davies
Published by Good Press, 2019
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As young ap William was a joyous and spirited boy, always full of fun and joviality, and was never so well pleased as when he collected around him a number of the sailors, and told them tales of other times, especially tales connected with the lives of the great warriors and heroes of his country he, in consequence, became a great favourite with his father’s crew, who loved him for his own and his father’s sake. During this time he did not, however, neglect his studies; nor was he lacking in acquiring a thorough knowledge of his profession. He studied navigation, paid great attention to charts; while in a short time he gained such an intimate acquaintance with the management of the vessel, that before two years elapsed the chief mate pronounced him to be the best and ablest sailor on board.
Before he attained his eighteenth year he could steer and manage a vessel with any captain in the mercantile marine; and as the first mate then retired from the service, John was appointed, by the owners of the ship, as his successor, with a promise that on the first vacancy he should have the command of one of their largest vessels. During those years John had saved several hundred pounds. This sum his father invested in the purchase of a small freehold estate in his native parish, to which John intended to retire after he had saved enough to secure a sufficient competency for himself and his beloved Myfanwy. To that day he looked forward with feelings of longing anticipation. On that day he had often said he would forget the past, would recall to his mind neither sorrow nor human woes; but would for once live a day wholly devoted to pleasure and to joy, looking on from then to a still more bright and happy future. Alas! alas! how different often are results from our expectations. Weeping cometh in the morning as well as at night. When we are most bent on pleasure, when we fancy we are about to realize, according to our anticipations, its fullest fruition, a dark cloud, charged with mournful tidings, bursts on our head. The day on which he led Myfanwy to the altar was the day on which he himself became an orphan. Indeed, he had not left the churchyard before being apprised of the sad intelligence that a father whom he loved so much was now a mangled corpse. He went home to weep and to grieve, though he did not sorrow as one who had no hope.
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