The Argosy — page 311: what you’re looking at

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292 Among the Welsh. book—it was Butler’s “ Analogy,” and he seemed to be getting out of his depth if one might judge by a look in his eyes which indicated pressure on the brain—he abruptly remarked : ‘“* Have you been up Snowdon ?” “No,” was the reply. “Then you may say that you have seen nothing of Wales,” with a mixture of scorn and pity. “Or rather that I have not seen aH Wales,” the modest cor- rection. “That you have seen nothing of Wales,” came in direct contradic- tion. ‘‘ But if you have not been up Snowdon, perhaps you have been down the Wye?” « Fy 5 4 - SS 3] a =a) == _- ——~ —SSS=S= ——— —=———SS==—= SS ——— —— —_—— = SUSPENSION BRIDGE, MENAI STRAITS. Without perceiving the connection evidently existing in his mind between the top of Snowdon and the valley of the Wye, I replied that good fortune had made me well acquainted with the river. ‘“ Ah!” he said, ‘I suppose so. And seen Tintern, no doubt 2” “SV es.” ‘“ By the lhght of a full moon, of course ?” ‘Yes; but that was accident, not design. The moon happened to be at the full at the time of a certain visit to Tintern.” ‘Of course! Everybody sees Tintern by full-moonlight. For my part, I find that in the tourist season, if you are to believe everyone, it is full moon all through July, August, and September. Now, sir,” said this extraordinary old gentleman, ‘‘I don’t believe one in a hundred who says he has seen Tintern by full-moonlight. Yet I have CORNICE OOOKS eC)