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The Bakehouse

Llinellau gan Mrs Evans (Cyfanswm: 184)

 
(1, 0) 24 Well, tan i marw!
 
(1, 0) 31 Dewch mewn!
 
(1, 0) 34 It's you, Mrs. Morgan, is it?
(1, 0) 35 Shw'da'chi heno?
(1, 0) 36 Hanner mined!
(1, 0) 37 I'll just turn up the light.
 
(1, 0) 45 Ready?
(1, 0) 46 Diwedd annwyl, no!
(1, 0) 47 It will take nearly another hour yet.
 
(1, 0) 51 Well, three-quarters since you're asking.
(1, 0) 52 Quarter past nine it is now.
(1, 0) 53 But sit down you.
 
(1, 0) 59 Dir caton pobin, Mrs. Morgans fach!
(1, 0) 60 If I was so much as to open the oven door just now, the bread would get that flat you'd think it was only pancakes.
 
(1, 0) 64 And you didn't mark your two loaves either, Mrs. Morgan─
 
(1, 0) 67 Yes.
(1, 0) 68 Put on a bit of a pattern or p'raps stick your initials in with a fork, so as to know them when they come out.
 
(1, 0) 72 I've put them in the corner by the wall.
(1, 0) 73 Mrs. Howells is the only other one that doesn't mark her bread, and, of course, she's got her own tins with her name on them.
(1, 0) 74 It's your first bread, I suppose, Mrs. Morgan?
 
(1, 0) 77 Quite right, too, Mrs. Morgan.
(1, 0) 78 It shows a proper spirit.
(1, 0) 79 Excuse me going on washing, but the water's nice and hot.
 
(1, 0) 81 Your mother-in-law always made some of the best loaves that ever went out of this bakehouse, Mrs. Morgan─excepting Mrs. Howells of course.
(1, 0) 82 If the angels in Heaven started baking to-morrow, they couldn't make a lighter crust than Mary Ann Howells's!
 
(1, 0) 86 Well, yn y wir now, I was so busy I didn't pay much notice.
 
(1, 0) 89 Yes, yes.
(1, 0) 90 Of course!
(1, 0) 91 But you'll learn, come you, you'll learn.
(1, 0) 92 And how do you like living in Tredegar Terrace, Mrs. Morgan?
(1, 0) 93 Let me see!
(1, 0) 94 You've been married nearly a month now?
 
(1, 0) 96 Well, mawredd, how time goes to be sure!
(1, 0) 97 And you went away for a week didn't you?
 
(1, 0) 99 To the Mumbles, wasn't it?
(1, 0) 100 Mrs. Jones Shop Flannel was telling me.
 
(1, 0) 103 I went so far as the Mumbles once myself.
(1, 0) 104 That was with Yanto, my first husband, Mrs. Morgan.
(1, 0) 105 Long ago, Mrs. Morgan fach!
 
(1, 0) 107 Long ago indeed!
(1, 0) 108 Zachariah wasn't so much for the water, poor Zachariah!
 
(1, 0) 113 Which d'you mean, Mrs. Morgan─Zachariah?
(1, 0) 114 Oh, yes!
(1, 0) 115 Over six years now indeed.
(1, 0) 116 He was a godly man, Mrs. Morgan; a proper saint on earth if ever there was one.
(1, 0) 117 Leader of the Rechabites for years.
(1, 0) 118 Poor Yanto now was more worldly.
 
(1, 0) 120 A lot of trouble, Mrs. Morgan fach─a lot of trouble.
(1, 0) 121 Still there's some consolation for a woman to know she's had two, and the men getting so scarce as they are.
 
(1, 0) 123 I've just had two big likenesses made of them, Mrs. Morgan, one of Yanto and one of Zachariah; and beautiful to behold they are.
(1, 0) 124 Cost me fifteen shillings, Mrs. Morgan, including the frames of course.
(1, 0) 125 Pritchard the Photo-shop it was that did them for me; from two old photographs; that's all, mind you!
 
(1, 0) 127 If I was you, Mrs. Morgan, I'd have one done of your Davy──
 
(1, 0) 129 I hope so, indeed.
(1, 0) 130 But you never know.
(1, 0) 131 And if he should happen to go before you, it's nice to have his likeness on the wall in the parlour.
(1, 0) 132 And very nice parlours you've got in Tredegar Terrace, too, there's no denying.
 
(1, 0) 135 You're settling down on the Twmp here now, Mrs. Morgan, no doubt?
(1, 0) 136 Bit strange at first, I suppose, after being down there in the Paris House in Dyffryn Street?
 
(1, 0) 141 But after all, Mrs. Morgan, there's very few pay any real attention to Mrs. Richards the Checkweigher─
 
(1, 0) 144 No, no!
(1, 0) 145 Of course!
(1, 0) 146 Of course!
(1, 0) 147 But p'raps it's only natural that she and her daughter Jinnie should look a bit black on you.
(1, 0) 148 You know what girls are these days.
 
(1, 0) 151 Well no!
(1, 0) 152 But, you see, you married him.
(1, 0) 153 She didn't.
(1, 0) 154 And, of course, they always were a bit free with their tongues─especially since that eldest girl married a preacher; though it isn't for me to say anything against them, and them baking two large and two small regular twice a week.
 
(1, 0) 157 Oh, yes!
(1, 0) 158 They've got their bread in to-night.
 
(1, 0) 161 Mrs. Richards, or else Jinnie, or p'raps both.
(1, 0) 162 It's Jinnie does the baking there now─
 
(1, 0) 165 Oh!
(1, 0) 166 Middling.
(1, 0) 167 Pretty fair indeed!
 
(1, 0) 169 It all depends.
(1, 0) 170 Sometimes early, sometimes late.
 
(1, 0) 173 But they're far in─close to the wall.
(1, 0) 174 Didn't I tell you?
 
(1, 0) 177 Ten o'clock sharp!
 
(1, 0) 180 Dyna fe.
(1, 0) 181 About ten.
 
(1, 0) 192 Shw' ma'i heno, Mary Ann?
 
(1, 0) 196 So he's coming on a visit after all, then?
(1, 0) 197 I didn't quite understand when your Maggie brought five loaves instead of three, as usual.
 
(1, 0) 203 Taw sôn, gel!
(1, 0) 204 But he was that kind of man before going to America.
(1, 0) 205 And to think of him coming back with all that money, and looking just like Buffalo Bill!
(1, 0) 206 Well, Mary Ann, I hope he won't come empty-handed, however.
(1, 0) 207 There's one thing, he can't take it with him when he dies.
 
(1, 0) 214 So, after all, in a way of speaking, Mary Ann, it was a good thing Richards the Checkweigher brought your Evan before the Chapel?
 
(1, 0) 218 But, I suppose, Mary Ann─between me and you─it is true your Evan was brought home on a wheelbarrow?
 
(1, 0) 221 There's no denying Mrs. Richards got very high and mighty when her eldest girl married the preacher; and there's no holding her now Richards is made a deacon.
 
(1, 0) 224 Of course they bring a lot of bread to the bakehouse.
 
(1, 0) 226 Middling─just middling.
(1, 0) 227 Very thick in the crust on times, Mary Ann; very thick on times.
 
(1, 0) 231 Well, of course, you ought to know if anybody did, Mary Ann.
 
(1, 0) 234 No, no.
(1, 0) 235 Of course!
(1, 0) 236 Of course!
 
(1, 0) 243 Quite right, too, Mary Ann.
(1, 0) 244 I don't know what's coming over Thomas Lewis Top Shop.
(1, 0) 245 Such a tidy man he used to be, too!
 
(1, 0) 251 D'you remember me telling you, Mary Ann, about taking the two photographs to Pritchard?
 
(1, 0) 255 Well, I've had the likenesses.
 
(1, 0) 258 Ie, yn wir.
(1, 0) 259 Grand likenesses they are, too!
 
(1, 0) 262 I'll go and get them.
 
(1, 0) 273 And here's Zachariah.
 
(1, 0) 278 They'll be a great comfort to me, Mary Ann, a great comfort.
(1, 0) 279 They cost me fifteen shillings the pair; but I couldn't have one without the other.
(1, 0) 280 It wouldn't be right to make a difference between them.
 
(1, 0) 285 Well, we had our day, Mary Ann, we had our day, and poor Zachariah was hardly in his grave when Jenkins y Gof offered me a row of taters in his garden.
(1, 0) 286 But when a woman's tried two of them, Mary Ann, it would be like tempting Providence to want a third.
 
(1, 0) 288 I'll be back in a minute.
 
(1, 0) 294 I was thinking just now about those old days when Mrs. Morgan was in.
(1, 0) 295 She's only been married a month.
 
(1, 0) 297 Yes.
(1, 0) 298 She's got two in to-night.
 
(1, 0) 301 Small.
 
(1, 0) 304 It's her first baking; and pretty excited about it she is, I can tell you.
 
(1, 0) 306 She even forgot to mark it.
 
(1, 0) 309 But I've put it in the corner by the wall, so that I'll know.
 
(1, 0) 311 Oh, yes!
(1, 0) 312 Tidy little woman.
(1, 0) 313 Mrs. Price Shop Loshin says she's too stuck-up, I doubt its true.
 
(1, 0) 315 And of course, Mrs. Price is thick as thieves with Mrs. Richards the Checkweigher.
 
(1, 0) 317 Well, you see, there's no denying it is a good business, and Davy'll get it all after the old man's days.
 
(1, 0) 320 H'sh!
(1, 0) 321 Here she is.
 
(1, 0) 323 Mrs. Morgan.
(1, 0) 324 Desc
 
(1, 0) 326 Enter MRS. MORGAN with tray and cloth as before.
(1, 0) 327 She stands by table at back.
 
(1, 0) 333 But, mawredd, Mrs. Morgans fach, it's only twenty-five to ten.
 
(1, 0) 342 Shows his good sense, Mrs. Morgan.
 
(1, 0) 360 Don't you notice her, Mrs. Morgan.
(1, 0) 361 She always had different ideas from anybody else.
 
(1, 0) 364 Well, there wasn't much alike about my two─beyond a coat and trousers.
 
(1, 0) 369 Ten sharp it comes out.
 
(1, 0) 371 I'll do my best, whatever.
(1, 0) 372 But it isn't so easy when there's a bakehouse full of women.
(1, 0) 373 And you can venture the Richardses will want to have a look.
 
(1, 0) 384 We've all had to go through it─the best of us; even Mrs. Howells here.
 
(1, 0) 396 Well, yn enw dyn!
 
(1, 0) 422 Keep yeast?
 
(1, 0) 425 Yes.
(1, 0) 426 Do as she tells you.
(1, 0) 427 Leave the tray.
(1, 0) 428 Run now.
(1, 0) 429 Quick!
 
(1, 0) 433 Well?
 
(1, 0) 435 And that's the girl Davy Morgan was so dull on!
 
(1, 0) 438 Well, if it's spoiled, it's spoiled!
 
(1, 0) 442 H'sh!
(1, 0) 443 There's somebody coming.
 
(1, 0) 447 Yes; both of them.
 
(1, 0) 458 Noswath dda; noswath dda, Jinnie.
 
(1, 0) 463 Not long now, indeed.
(1, 0) 464 Ishta lawr, Jinnie.
 
(1, 0) 472 Pretty near now, Mrs. Price.
 
(1, 0) 475 It's all up on Mrs. Morgan and her bread now, Mary Ann!
 
(1, 0) 490 Well, indeed, now, say what you like; there's nothing nicer than broad beans and a bit of bacon.
 
(1, 0) 499 Only a few minutes now, Mrs. Jones.
(1, 0) 500 Come in, you!
 
(1, 0) 542 Yes, yes.
(1, 0) 543 Hers it is.
 
(1, 0) 545 Yes.
 
(1, 0) 547 Two.
 
(1, 0) 549 Small.
 
(1, 0) 551 Well, indeed, she hasn't got a mark to-night.
 
(1, 0) 553 No.
(1, 0) 554 Bakehouse tins.
 
(1, 0) 561 Well, indeed, I hear many on the Twmp here giving her a good word.
 
(1, 0) 598 Five minutes; that's all.
 
(1, 0) 644 Well, there's just a few minutes.
(1, 0) 645 In the house they are.
 
(1, 0) 731 Yes.
(1, 0) 732 Here they are─beauties, too, indeed!
 
(1, 0) 740 And here's yours, Mrs. Morgan.
 
(1, 0) 744 Two, isn't it─bake-house tins, and no mark?
 
(1, 0) 747 Here we are then!
 
(1, 0) 769 That'll be a penny, Mrs. Morgan.