emarkable manner.

The people of the tavern which Rees Pritchard frequented had a large
he-goat, which went in and out and mingled with the guests. One day Rees
in the midst of his orgies called the goat to him and offered it some
ale; the creature, far from refusing it, drank greedily, and soon
becoming intoxicated, fell down upon the floor, where it lay quivering,
to the great delight of Rees Pritchard, who made its drunkenness a
subject of jest to his boon companions, who, however, said nothing, being
struck with horror at such conduct in a person who was placed among them
to be a pattern and example. Before night, however, Pritchard became
himself intoxicated, and was trundled to the vicarage in the usual
manner. During the whole of the next day he was very ill and kept at
home, but on the following one he again repaired to the public-house, sat
down and called for his pipe and tankard. The goat was now perfectly
recovered, and was standing nigh. No sooner was the tankard brought than
Rees taking hold of it held it to the goat's mouth. The creature,
however, turned away its head in disgust, and hurried out of the room.
This circumstance produced an instantaneous effect upon Rees Pritchard.
"My God!" said he to himself, "is this poor dumb creature wiser than I?
Yes, surely; it has been drunk, but having once experienced the wretched
consequences of drunkenness, it refuses to be drunk again. How different
is its conduct to mine! I, after having experienced a hundred times the
filthiness and misery of drunkenness, have still persisted in debasing
myself below the condition of a beast. Oh, if I persist in this conduct
what have I to expect but wretchedness and contempt in this world and
eternal perdition in the next? But, thank God, it is not yet too late to
amend; I am still alive--I will become a new man--the goat has taught me
a lesson." Smashing his pipe he left his tankard untasted on the table,
went home, and became an altered man.

Different as an angel of light is from the fiend of the pit was Rees
Pritchard from that moment from what he had been in former days. For
upwards of thirty years he preached the Gospel as it had never been
preached before in the Welsh tongue since the time of Saint Paul,
supposing the beautiful legend to be true which tells us that Saint Paul
in his wanderings found his way to Britain and preached to the
inhabitants the inestimable efficacy of Christ's bloodshedding in the