and have a pint; this is my house," said
he, pointing to one of the buildings.

"But," said I, "I suppose if I drink at your expense you expect to drink
at mine?"

"Why, we can't say that we shall have any objection, your honour; I think
we will arrange the matter in this way; we will go into my house, where
we will each of us treat your honour with a pint, and for each pint we
treat your honour with your honour shall treat us with one."

"Do you mean each?" said I.

"Why, yes! your honour, for a pint amongst three would be rather a short
allowance."

"Then it would come to this," said I, "I should receive three pints from
you three, and you three would receive nine from me."

"Just so, your honour, I see your honour is a ready reckoner."

"I know how much three times three make," said I. "Well, thank you,
kindly, but I must decline your offer; I am bound on a journey."

"Where are you bound to, master?"

"To Llandovery, but if I can find an inn a few miles farther on I shall
stop there for the night."

"Then you will put up at the 'Pump Saint,' master; well, you can have
your three pints here and your three pipes too, and yet get easily there
by seven. Come in, master, come in! If you take my advice you will
think of your pint and your pipe and let all the rest go to the devil."

"Thank you," said I, "but I can't accept your invitation, I must be off;"
and in spite of yet more pressing solicitations I went on.

I had not gone far when I came to a point where the road parted into two;
just at the point were a house and premises belonging apparently to a
stonemason, as a great many pieces of half-cut granite were standing
about, and not a few tombstones. I stopped and looked at one of the
latter. It was to the memory of somebody who died at the age of
sixty-six, and at the bottom bore the following bit of poetry:--

"Ti ddaear o ddaear ystyria mewn braw,
Mai daear i ddaear yn fuan a ddaw;
A ddaear mewn ddaear raid aros bob darn
Nes daear o ddaear gyfrodir i farn."

"Thou earth from earth reflect with anxious mind
That earth to earth must quickly be consigned,
And earth in earth must lie entranced enthralled
Till earth from earth to judgment shall be called."

"What conflicting opinions there are in this world," said I, after I had
copied the quatrain and translated it. "The publican yonder tells me to
think of my pint and pipe and let everything else go to the devi