glish.

"Dim Saesneg," said the woman.

I repeated my question in Welsh.

"Two miles," said she.

"Still two miles to Holyhead by the road," thought I. "Nos da," said I
to the woman and sped along. At length I saw water on my right,
seemingly a kind of bay, and presently a melancholy ship. I doubled my
pace, which was before tolerably quick, and soon saw a noble-looking
edifice on my left, brilliantly lighted up. "What a capital inn that
would make," said I, looking at it wistfully, as I passed it. Presently
I found myself in the midst of a poor, dull, ill-lighted town.

"Where is the inn?" said I to a man.

"The inn, sir; you have passed it. The inn is yonder," he continued,
pointing towards the noble-looking edifice.

"What, is that the inn?" said I.

"Yes, sir, the railroad hotel--and a first-rate hotel it is."

"And are there no other inns?"

"Yes, but they are all poor places. No gent puts up at them--all the
gents by the railroad put up at the railroad hotel."

What was I to do? after turning up my nose at the railroad, was I to put
up at its hotel? Surely to do so would be hardly acting with
consistency. "Ought I not rather to go to some public-house, frequented
by captains of fishing smacks, and be put in a bed a foot too short for
me," said I, as I reflected on my last night's couch at Mr Pritchard's.
"No, that won't do--I shall go to the hotel, I have money in my pocket,
and a person with money in his pocket has surely a right to be
inconsistent if he pleases."

So I turned back and entered the railroad hotel with lofty port and with
sounding step, for I had twelve sovereigns in my pocket, besides a half
one, and some loose silver, and feared not to encounter the gaze of any
waiter or landlord in the land. "Send boots!" I roared to the waiter, as
I flung myself down in an arm-chair in a magnificent coffee-room. "What
the deuce are you staring at? send boots can't you, and ask what I can
have for dinner."

"Yes, sir," said the waiter, and with a low bow departed.

"These boots are rather dusty," said the boots, a grey-haired,
venerable-looking man, after he had taken off my thick, solid,
square-toed boots. "I suppose you came walking from the railroad?"

"Confound the railroad!" said I. "I came walking from Bangor. I would
have you know that I have money in my pocket, and can afford to walk. I
am fond of the beauties of nature; now it is impossible to see much of
the beauties o