When Rhys bravely resolved to work like a man, he knew what lay before him to do and to learn. Farming on a thin, unproductive stratum of soil in a mountain land is no child's play.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Pronounced Egloois-ilian.
[2] Cwrw da, good ale. The w has the sound of oo; thus cooroo.
[3] Rhys, pronounced Rees.
CHAPTER II. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
Is there any record of a catastrophe so great or appalling that it could not possibly have been worse?
In the first hours of her sudden bereavement, Mrs. Edwards felt as if an overwhelming flood of desolation had swept over her, and left her and her orphans helpless and hopeless. Not that her husband had been the most active spirit on the farm, but she was in no condition to reason or to weigh probabilities. She had not been wont to rely on him for advice or action, but in losing him she felt as if all was lost.