"You are walking about, and in Wales when we see a person walking
idly about, on the Sabbath-day, we are in the habit of saying,
Sabbath-breaker, where are you going?"

"The Son of Man walked through the fields on the Sabbath-day, why
should I not walk along the roads?"

"He who called Himself the Son of Man was God and could do what He
pleased, but you are not God."

"But He came in the shape of a man to set an example. Had there
been anything wrong in walking about on the Sabbath-day, He would
not have done it."

Here the wife exclaimed, "How worldly-wise these English are!"

"You do not like the English," said I.

"We do not dislike them," said the woman; "at present they do us no
harm, whatever they did of old."

"But you still consider them," said I, "the seed of Y Sarfes
cadwynog, the coiling serpent."

"I should be loth to call any people the seed of the serpent," said
the woman.

"But one of your great bards did," said I.

"He must have belonged to the Church, and not to the chapel then,"