whereas a pair of clogs only cost two."

"I suppose," said I, "that what you call clogs are wooden shoes."

"Just so," said Jones - "they are principally used in the
neighbourhood of Manchester."

"I have seen them at Huddersfield," said I, "when I was a boy at
school there; of what wood are they made?"

"Of the gwern, or alder tree," said the woman, "of which there is
plenty on both sides of the brook."

John Jones now asked her if she could give him a tamaid of bread;
she said she could, "and some butter with it."

She then went out and presently returned with a loaf and some
butter.

"Had you not better wait," said I, "till we get to the inn at
Llansanfraid?"

The woman, however, begged him to eat some bread and butter where
he was, and cutting a plateful, placed it before him, having first
offered me some which I declined.

"But you have nothing to drink with it," said I to him.

"If you please," said the woman, "I will go for a pint of ale to
the public-house at the Pandy, there is better ale there than at