This translation is taken from a most entertaining as well as useful work, entitled The Gossiping Guide to Wales, written by the late Mr. J. Askew Roberts, and published by Woodall, Minshall & Co., Oswestry 1886.


Bouncer was a welsher,

Bouncer was a thief,

I won a bet of Bouncer,

And came to awful grief.

When I went to Bouncer,

He said he hadn’t bet it,

Put his thumb up to his nose,

And wished that I might get it.