wedding gifts, which will be repaid
with thanks on a like occasion.
T. Williams.
Elizabeth Jones.
It is expected that gifts due to them,
and to their parents and brothers,
will be paid on the wedding day.
SNOWDON FROM LLANBERIS LAKE
The custom was old; the village was new, and it stood on the edge of a strange new land. Having passed it, the road dipped among sublime black hills of refuse from furnace and pit. The streams were rich with yellow water, purple water. Here and there were dim, shining, poisonous heaps of green and blue, like precious stones. There were railway lines everywhere, and on them trucks, full of scraps of metal, like sheaves of scimitars and other cruel weapons—still cruel, but hacked, often rusty, and expressing something more horrible than mere sharpness and ferocity. There were furnaces, crimson and gold; and beyond all, a white-clouded sky which said that it was over the sea.