I have found great pleasure, and some difficulty too, in translating Hen Dŷ Ffarm into English, and I hope I have not altogether lost the charm of the original.

Translator's note.

I, David John Williams, was born, they say, in Penrhiw, in the parish of Llansawel in Carmarthenshire, between four and five o'clock in the morning of the 26th of June, in the year 1885, and Margaret Anne, my sister Pegi, between three and four o'clock in the morning of the 21st January 1887. My mother used to say that Pegi got up an hour before me ever afterwards.

1. Around the nest.