“Oh yes! upwards of twenty years.”
“How came you to learn Welsh?”
“Oh, I took to it and soon picked it up.”
“Can you read it?” said I.
“No, I can’t.”
“Can you read English?”
“Yes, I can; that is, a little.”
“Why didn’t you try to learn to read Welsh?”
“Well, I did; but I could make no hand of it. It’s one thing to speak Welsh and another to read it.”
“I can read Welsh much better than I can speak it,” said I.