(7) KADDY'S LUCK.

Same source as 2.



(8) STORY OF GELERT.

As told by an old fisherman. The variant of this well-known story
may prove useful. Borrow's "tent" theory is, I think, an invention
of his own. I was fortunate enough to get possession of an old book
(without title-page, title, or author's name), in which the
following remarks on this story occur:--

"Some say this should be written Bedd Gelert, or Gilert, signifying
Gelert's, or Gilert's Grave. To this name is annexed a traditional
story, which it is hardly worth while to mention. However, the
substance of the tradition is, that Prince Llewelyn ap Iorwerth, in
a fit of passion, killed a favourite greyhound in this place, named
Gelert, or Gilert, and that, repenting of the deed, he caused a tomb
to be erected over his grave, where afterwards the parish church was
built. See the story at large in Mr. Edw. Jones's _Welsh
Music_. But we may reasonably conclude that this is all a fable,
both when we consider the impiety of building a church for divine
worship over the grave of a dog, an impiety not consistent with the
genius of that age; and when we consider, also, that the
establishment of parochial cures, and the building of our country
churches in Wales, began soon after the dispersion of the British
clergy, which happened at the time of the massacre at Bangor Iscoed,
A.D. 603, at the instigation of Augustine the Monk, employed for