Headlong Hall

poets, who seem to have composed their whining ditties for the benevolent purpose of bes

being able to accomplish this to his satisfaction, he tossed and tumbled, like Achilles or Orlando, first on one side, then on the other; repeated to himself several hundred lines of poetry; counted a thousand; began again, and counted another thousand: in vain: the beautiful Cephalis was the predominant image in all his soliloquies, in all his repetitions: even in the n

nd peeped through the chapel window, examining the interior with as much curiosity as if he had "forgotten what the inside of a church was made of," which, it is rather to be feared, was the case. Before him and beneath him were the font, the altar, and the grave; which gave rise to a train of moral reflections on the three great epochs in the course of the featherless biped,- birth, marriage, and death. The middle stage of the process arrested his attention; and his imagination placed before him several figures, which he thought, with the addition of his own, would make a very picturesque group; the beautiful Cephalis, "arrayed in her bridal apparel of white;" her friend Caprioletta officiating as bridemaid; Mr Cranium giving her away; and, last, not least, the Reverend Doctor Gast

pe sure she was - I tid n't much like tigging her crave - put I prought two cocks with me - the tevil hates cocks - and tied them py the leg on two tombstones - and I tug, and the cocks crowed, and the tevil kept at a tistance. To pe sure now, if I had n't peen very prave py nature - as I ought to pe truly - for my father was Owen Ap-Llwyd Ap-Gryffydd Ap-She

y aware of it,

nt over to Cwm Cynfael in Meirionnydd, apout some cattles he wanted to puy - he saw a strange figure - pless us!- with five horn

was mistaken,"

of the river, where he used to sit, look you, for a whole summer's tay, while Hugh Llwyd was on his pulpit, and there they used to talk across the water! for Hugh Llwyd, please your honour

ng smile at his own sagacity, in so luminously

perhaps, facilitate the resolution of a question, concerning which, though I have little d

guage of Mr Escot not being to his app

nued Mr Escot, in the language of

began to suspect the personage before him of being rather too familiar with Hugh Llwyd

of course dug up many bones of

you, yes! pones as

ou can sho

ile. "Will you take your Pible oath you

smiling; "I have an abstru

a good opportunity to show that he could pronounce hard words as well

us bones and skulls of more than common dimensions, and amongst them a skull of ver

his to be his skul

and he was puried here; and this is the p

r Escot. "My good friend will you all

d pones out of consecrated cround? Would you have him come in the tead of the night, and fly away with the

pones shal

cround shall

will well bestow them in giving them to me: for I will have this illustrious skull bound with a silver rim, and filled with mantling wine, with this i

o instantly stood spellbound by the talismanic influence of the coin