Ciw-restr

The Four-Leaved Clover

Llinellau gan Catrin (Cyfanswm: 176)

 
(1, 0) 13 There's a bad boy you are, lanto Griffith.
(1, 0) 14 Look at that now!
 
(1, 0) 16 I think you men like to see your wives sitting and darning big, big holes in your socks.
 
(1, 0) 19 Well, it's a long month, whatever.
(1, 0) 20 I'm feeling as if I'd been married for years.
 
(1, 0) 25 Let your mother darn your socks, and me your wife?
(1, 0) 26 No, indeed, then!
(1, 0) 27 She's had it long enough; it's my turn now.
(1, 0) 28 Joking I was, Ianto bach.
(1, 0) 29 Why, the first time I ever saw you I said to myself, ''I wouldn't mind darning his socks for him.''
 
(1, 0) 32 No, indeed, it wasn't then.
(1, 0) 33 Long before that, at Christmas, in the railway station at Penlan.
(1, 0) 34 Pouring with rain it was, and I thought I'd like your hair a bit shorter.
(1, 0) 35 There were little drops on the ends of it.
 
(1, 0) 39 There's a good boy.
 
(1, 0) 42 And yet you seem to have looked at the girls a good bit, Ianto Griffith, for such a quiet young man!
 
(1, 0) 46 Who's this Myfanwy you've been writing about?
 
(1, 0) 53 H'm!
(1, 0) 54 You'd better write poetry about mountains and things like that, now you're married, Ianto.
(1, 0) 55 It's more respectable.
(1, 0) 56 Or, perhaps it's time you left off writing it at all.
(1, 0) 57 It's queer for a farmer to be writing poetry, somehow.
(1, 0) 58 It's more the thing for a minister.
 
(1, 0) 62 Ianto, why didn't you tell me before?
 
(1, 0) 65 How much was the prize?
 
(1, 0) 67 Oh!
 
(1, 0) 69 Perhaps you'd better not leave off writing poetry, after all.
(1, 0) 70 You might get a prize at the National some day.
 
(1, 0) 73 No, indeed, I'm not.
(1, 0) 74 Why shouldn't you get twenty pounds and a carved chair like the minister at Bodewan?eWouldn't the chair look beautiful in the parlour?
 
(1, 0) 77 Sofa, indeed!
(1, 0) 78 No, I'd put it in the Savings Bank, every penny.
 
(1, 0) 82 Seventeen and six.
(1, 0) 83 Ten shillings for the eggs and chickens, and seven-and-six wedding presents.
(1, 0) 84 I had a penny each for the eggs with Ann the Shop-─only I let Lizzie Morgan have a dozen.
 
(1, 0) 87 That's what she said, but I didn't see why should she have them for less than Ann the Shop.
(1, 0) 88 They'd be more in the market; and, after all, there's three of them earning now.
 
(1, 0) 93 Very well, Ianto.
 
(1, 0) 95 But it's you I'm thinking of all the time─and the children.
 
(1, 0) 97 Our children─if we have any.
(1, 0) 98 Why shouldn't I think about them?
(1, 0) 99 Unless, perhaps, it's unlucky.
(1, 0) 100 Have you ever heard it's unlucky?
 
(1, 0) 102 Well, I want my children to have plenty of money when they're old enough, but first of all I want to save up enough to buy one Jersey cow, whatever, and then I'll be able to make more butter, and get more money for it, and have it in the Bank, ready against when they want it.
(1, 0) 103 Now, don't you think you've got a careful, saving wife, Ianto Griffith?
(1, 0) 104 IANTO
 
(1, 0) 106 Yes, indeed.
(1, 0) 107 And you don't wish you'd married Lizzie Ann Morris instead?
 
(1, 0) 109 There's stupid men are!
 
(1, 0) 111 Ianto.
 
(1, 0) 113 Sir Watkin was here to-day again.
 
(1, 0) 116 There's dull you are, Ianto!
(1, 0) 117 I told you Sir Watkin came in on Monday about the pigs, and he saw the old coffer in the parlour, and asked me would we sell it.
 
(1, 0) 120 Yes, but─
 
(1, 0) 122 Sir Watkin is a |very| nice gentleman, isn't he?
 
(1, 0) 124 There's unkind he'll think us {sighs} not to let him have an old coffer that's no use to us.
(1, 0) 125 Ianto, I can't keep the blankets in it any more.
(1, 0) 126 The lid's too heavy for me to lift.
 
(1, 0) 128 Yes, but─suppose you're up on the mountain after the sheep and I'm wanting a blanket in a hurry?
 
(1, 0) 131 It's no use─she won't be willing.
(1, 0) 132 She was here to-day and crying when I told her.
 
(1, 0) 135 Yes, indeed, Ianto.
(1, 0) 136 Beautiful and shining it is, too.
(1, 0) 137 Sir Watkin said so.
(1, 0) 138 Feeling and feeling it he was with his finger.
 
(1, 0) 140 You were saying the other day the cowshed wanted a new roof?
(1, 0) 141 IANTO
 
(1, 0) 143 Yes.
(1, 0) 144 It'll have to have one before the winter.
(1, 0) 145 How are you going to do it?
 
(1, 0) 149 I wonder would Sir Watkin put on a new roof!
 
(1, 0) 152 Ianto─Sir Watkin thought the world of that old coffer.
(1, 0) 153 He said he'd give ten pounds for it.
(1, 0) 154 And, perhaps, if we let him have it, he'll give us a new roof as well.
 
(1, 0) 158 I said I'dask you.
(1, 0) 159 I wouldn't do anything without you were willing, Ianto, only I'd be sorry in my heart to vex Sir Watkin.
 
(1, 0) 165 No.
(1, 0) 166 It's so big; it fills up the place.
 
(1, 0) 168 But what will your mother say?
 
(1, 0) 173 Then will I tell Sir Watkin you're willing to let him have it?
 
(1, 0) 176 No, indeed.
(1, 0) 177 Sir Watkin's different.
(1, 0) 178 Oh, Ianto, there's glad I am.
(1, 0) 179 Ten pounds!
(1, 0) 180 And the roof of the cowshed.
 
(1, 0) 182 Yes, we will.
(1, 0) 183 Wait you till tomorrow.
 
(1, 0) 185 There's happy I am here with you, Ianto.
(1, 0) 186 You're so kind.
 
(1, 0) 188 Diws anwyl!
(1, 0) 189 It's time for supper.
 
(1, 0) 194 Who's there, I wonder?
(1, 0) 195 It's loud enough for Sir Watkin himself.
 
(1, 0) 202 What do you want, old man, at this time of night?
 
(1, 0) 206 But it's buttermilk you'll get and not beer.
 
(1, 0) 209 No, indeed!
(1, 0) 210 Buttermilk's better for him than old beer.
(1, 0) 211 And he likes it better, too.
(1, 0) 212 Don't you, Ianto bach?
 
(1, 0) 217 Diws anwyl!
(1, 0) 218 Look!
(1, 0) 219 Don't you put your feet on my floor until you've wiped them on the mat.
(1, 0) 220 All the muck of the world in my clean kitchen.
(1, 0) 221 For shame!
 
(1, 0) 241 No, indeed, Ianto.
(1, 0) 242 There's sorry I am!
(1, 0) 243 I'm a pound short this week, and I must save the butter up for the Plâs.
(1, 0) 244 Lady Llewelyn is giving me 2d. a pound more than market price.
(1, 0) 245 She says there's no butter like Dorwen butter.
(1, 0) 246 There's a pity I didn't know somebody was coming to supper.
(1, 0) 247 We could have gone without butter for dinner.
 
(1, 0) 250 Over three mountains you said?
(1, 0) 251 It's from Seven Sisters you are, perhaps, then?
 
(1, 0) 253 Perhaps you come from Carno way?
(1, 0) 254 My Auntie Mari's husband was from there.
 
(1, 0) 256 Llanilid then?
(1, 0) 257 I wonder would you know my granny at the Rhos Farm?
 
(1, 0) 269 There's a lot of old nonsense men talk!
(1, 0) 270 Will you tell us your name, |Sir|, if you've no objection.
 
(1, 0) 273 Oh, there's nice!
(1, 0) 274 Will you play us a tune after supper?
 
(1, 0) 287 Dear anwyl!
(1, 0) 288 Whatever for?
 
(1, 0) 302 There's queer you talk, old man.
(1, 0) 303 There's no great sights to be had near Dorwen, whatever.
 
(1, 0) 306 Pooh!
(1, 0) 307 Old poetry that is.
(1, 0) 308 Now, I like peopie to talk sense.
(1, 0) 309 OLD MAN
 
(1, 0) 311 Can a man talk sense to a woman?
(1, 0) 312 CATRIN
 
(1, 0) 314 There's cross you are!
(1, 0) 315 Go you and sit down by the fire, for me to be clearing the supper.
 
(1, 0) 325 For shame, old man!
 
(1, 0) 329 Don't talk like that.
(1, 0) 330 Ianto's father was a good man─a deacon he was─and he's now in heaven.
 
(1, 0) 333 Caton pawb!
(1, 0) 334 Not want to go to heaven?
(1, 0) 335 Where d'you want to go, then?
(1, 0) 336 IANTO
 
(1, 0) 338 Why d'you say that?
 
(1, 0) 340 Golden streets they are.
 
(1, 0) 345 Did you never go to chapel?
 
(1, 0) 480 Oh!
(1, 0) 481 Thinking I was you'd gone.
 
(1, 0) 496 Well, I'm glad he's gone, whatever, with his dirty boots and his wicked talk.
 
(1, 0) 500 It's afraid I was of vexing Lady Llewelyn by sending her two pounds short.
 
(1, 0) 503 What's the matter with you, Ianto?
(1, 0) 504 There's strange you are!
(1, 0) 505 Aren't you well?
 
(1, 0) 510 I've been thinking what we'd better do with the ten pounds.
(1, 0) 511 There's a sale at the Velin next week, and they've got some Jersey cows.
(1, 0) 512 I wouldn't wonder if we could pick up a bargain─putting a little on to it.
 
(1, 0) 514 The ten pounds that Sir Watkin promised for the coffer, of course.
 
(1, 0) 518 Not going to sell the coffer?
(1, 0) 519 Ianto! and we want a Jersey cow so badly, and now we won't get a new roof for the cowshed, and Sir Watkin will think us so queer─
 
(1, 0) 521 Perhaps, he'd give us more if we asked for it.
 
(1, 0) 527 It's not the money I'm thinking of, Ianto, it's your own good.
(1, 0) 528 I only want the Jersey cow for me to be able to make more butter, and─and─
 
(1, 0) 532 There's three of them earning, and Emrys getting 21s. at the works.
(1, 0) 533 You said so yourself.
 
(1, 0) 537 You said you liked me to be careful and not waste money.
 
(1, 0) 542 Ianto!
(1, 0) 543 Are you sorry you married me?
 
(1, 0) 551 Oh, cruel, cruel things.
 
(1, 0) 557 Saying you were that I was a mean stingy girl, who loved money better than everything in the world, and that I'd grow into an old screw who'd sit in the rain all day to sell six-penn'orth of sour apples.
 
(1, 0) 568 Then you didn't mean me, Ianto?
 
(1, 0) 571 And you don't think I'm a stingy old screw at all?
 
(1, 0) 577 Not prettier than Myfanwy?
 
(1, 0) 580 What about the coffer, Ianto?
 
(1, 0) 583 Oh! but I thought─you weren't willing.
 
(1, 0) 585 And what about your mother?
 
(1, 0) 590 What was it you threw into the fire now just?
 
(1, 0) 593 There's a queer old man that was!
(1, 0) 594 I was afraid in my heart of him.
(1, 0) 595 Who d'you think he was, Ianto?