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Title: My Neighbors
Stories of the Welsh People

Author: Caradoc Evans

Release Date: October 8, 2005 [EBook #16823]

Language: English

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MY NEIGHBORS
STORIES OF THE WELSH PEOPLE

BY
CARADOC EVANS

NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE, INC.

THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY, N.J.

TO
MY FRIEND
THOMAS BURKE
OF "LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS"

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

THE WELSH PEOPLE 3
I. LOVE AND HATE 11
II. ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN 31
III. THE TWO APOSTLES 59
IV. EARTHBRED 81
V. FOR BETTER 99
VI. TREASURE AND TROUBLE 117
VII. SAINT DAVID AND THE PROPHETS 131
VIII. JOSEPH'S HOUSE 155
IX. LIKE BROTHERS 173
X. A WIDOW WOMAN 187
XI. UNANSWERED PRAYERS 199
XII. LOST TREASURE 215
XIII. PROFIT AND GLORY 231

THE WELSH PEOPLE

Our God is a big man: a tall man much higher than the highest chapel in
Wales and broader than the broadest chapel. For the promised day that He
comes to deliver us a sermon we shall have made a hole in the roof and
taken down a wall. Our God has a long, white beard, and he is not unlike
the Father Christmas of picture-books. Often he lies on his stomach on
Heaven's floor, an eye at one of his myriads of peepholes, watching that
we keep his laws. Our God wears a frock coat, a starched linen collar
and black necktie, and a silk hat, and on the Sabbath he preaches to the
congregation of Heaven.

Heaven is a Welsh chapel; but its pulpit is of gold, and its