GRADATION.
Clerk (to Curate). "I'm terrible sorry, Zur, that you be agwaïne to lave us. We've changed ever zo many times since Passen Green died, and always for the wuss!"
TRAVELS IN TAFFY-LAND; OR, WALES BLOWING.
[The Flint Town Council has censured the L. & N. W. Railway for dismissing some of its servants for ignorance of the English language.]
Would you tell me, Porter, if the next train is the one for Aberystwyth?
I am really very much obliged for your reply, but as I have not a Cymric dictionary at hand, I am totally unable even to guess at your meaning.
As the man points to the train which is now at the platform, and nods vigorously, I suppose he means me to get in. Still, the fact that it has "Llanrhychwyn" on it makes me a little doubtful whether I shall ever reach Aberystwyth if I enter it.
I am grateful for your attention, Guard, but it was a foot-warmer that I asked for, not the newspaper-boy.
As I have just been hurled down an embankment and find myself sitting much bruised in a shallow pond in a field close to the line, I really fancy that the Welsh-speaking signalman at the adjoining cabin has failed to understand the message wired to him in English from our last stopping station.