hand saying:--"This is the treasure of the church, sir!"

I looked at the cup. It was tolerably large and of very chaste
workmanship. Graven upon it were the following words:--

"Poculum Eclesie De LXXN Dewy Brefy 1574."

"Do you always keep this cup in that chest?" said I.

"Yes sir! we have kept it there since the cup was given to us by de godly
Queen Elizabeth."

I said nothing, but I thought to myself:--"I wonder how long a cup like
this would have been safe in a crazy chest in a country church in
England."

I kissed the sacred relic of old times with reverence, and returned it to
the old sexton.

"What became of the horns of Hu Gadarn's bull?" said I, after he had
locked the cup again in its dilapidated coffer.

"They did dwindle away, sir, till they came to nothing."

"Did you ever see any part of them?" said I.

"Oh no, sir; I did never see any part of them, but one very old man who
is buried here did tell me shortly before he died that he had seen one
very old man who had seen of dem one little tip."

"Who was the old man who said that to you?" said I.

"I will show you his monument, sir," then taking me into a dusky pew he
pointed to a small rude tablet against the church wall and said:--"That
is his monument, sir."

The tablet bore the following inscription, and below it a rude englyn on
death not worth transcribing:--

Coffadwriaeth am
THOMAS JONES
Diweddar o'r Draws Llwyn yn y Plwyf hwn:
Bu farw Chwefror 6 fed 1830
Yn 92 oed.

To the memory of
THOMAS JONES
Of Traws Llwyn (across the Grove) in this
parish who died February the sixth, 1830.
Aged 92.

After copying the inscription I presented the old man with a trifle and
went my way.

CHAPTER XCV

Lampeter--The Monk Austin--The Three Publicans--The Tombstone--Sudden
Change--Trampers--A Catholic--The Bridge of Twrch.

The country between Llan Ddewi and Lampeter presented nothing remarkable,
and I met on the road nothing worthy of being recorded. On arriving at
Lampeter I took a slight refreshment at the inn, and then went to see the
college which stands a little way to the north of the town. It was
founded by Bishop Burgess in the year 1820, for t