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The Bakehouse

Llinellau gan Mrs Howells (Cyfanswm: 190)

 
(1, 0) 189 Noswath dda, Mrs. Morgan.
 
(1, 0) 194 Oh! weddol, Betsi fach, weddol!
(1, 0) 195 But it's a hard day of it I've had─what with the extra baking and getting a bed ready for my brother-in-law.
 
(1, 0) 200 Yes.
(1, 0) 201 We're going to have John William with us for a couple of weeks.
(1, 0) 202 As soon as he heard that our Evan had been broken out of the Chapel for drinking, he wrote and said he was coming to stay a fortnight.
 
(1, 0) 209 Well, I won't say a few pounds wouldn't come in handy with our Evan as he is.
(1, 0) 210 But I've roughed it enough in this old world, and I can manage.
(1, 0) 211 It's of the little girl I'm thinking.
(1, 0) 212 I'd be glad if he put a bit by for her to fall back on after my days.
 
(1, 0) 215 Well, if the little girl was to gain anything by John William coming, there's no thanks due to the Richardses.
(1, 0) 216 I'm not denying Evan is fond of his glass.
(1, 0) 217 But there was no call for Richards to bring him before the Chapel, especially with Mrs. Richards using my mangle as she used to.
 
(1, 0) 219 Well, Betsi, it isn't for me to say he was─being his wife; and, being a Christian woman, it isn't for me to say he wasn't.
(1, 0) 220 But what I do say is, there was no need for the Richardses to make a fuss about it.
 
(1, 0) 222 By one vote, Betsi.
(1, 0) 223 I'd as soon vote for Cohen the Pawnbroker!
 
(1, 0) 225 And it's nothing to make a song about either, is the Richards's bread.
 
(1, 0) 228 What I've always said is, barm or yeast.
(1, 0) 229 Stick to one or the other.
(1, 0) 230 I can't abide a woman that's always shilly-shallying with the both.
 
(1, 0) 232 Not that I'm saying a woman oughtn't to use barm if she can't get good yeast.
(1, 0) 233 Oh, no!
 
(1, 0) 237 There's me now.
(1, 0) 238 I went to the Top Shop for yeast this morning.
(1, 0) 239 Such trash, my girl─well, you ought to have seen it!
(1, 0) 240 Rise?
(1, 0) 241 You'd want a balloon to rise it.
(1, 0) 242 So I sent our Maggie up to the brewery for some barm.
 
(1, 0) 246 Aay!
(1, 0) 247 I remember him well.
(1, 0) 248 Great friend of our Evan, and of your Yanto, too, come to that!
 
(1, 0) 250 Der! times have changed on us all.
 
(1, 0) 253 Yes, yes!
(1, 0) 254 Yanto and Zachariah?
 
(1, 0) 257 No!
 
(1, 0) 260 You don't say!
(1, 0) 261 Let's have a look, Betsi fach.
 
(1, 0) 263 Yes, quick.
 
(1, 0) 268 Well, tan i marw!
(1, 0) 269 Yanto─the living image of him, Betsi!
(1, 0) 270 Poor Yanto, such a happy laugh he had, you'd think there was no such thing.
(1, 0) 271 as trouble in the world!
 
(1, 0) 276 Well, diwedd annwyl, Betsi fach!
(1, 0) 277 The spit moral of him─just as he used to be, sitting in the sêt fawr in Horeb.
 
(1, 0) 282 It takes us back a long time, Betsi fach!
(1, 0) 283 It's a long time since you and Yanto Pugh the Pop began walking out on Bryndu.
 
(1, 0) 296 Has she started baking her own bread?
 
(1, 0) 299 Oh, indeed!
(1, 0) 300 Large or Small?
 
(1, 0) 302 Well, people may say what they like, but I've always believed the small loaves bake more even.
(1, 0) 303 I'd never make large myself.
 
(1, 0) 305 Well, its only natural.
 
(1, 0) 307 Taw sôn!
(1, 0) 308 Forgot to mark it?
 
(1, 0) 310 Nice little thing she is, I'd say, from the look of her.
 
(1, 0) 314 But then, according to Mrs. Price Shop Loshin, everybody's too stuck up that won't waste half the morning talking over the wall.
 
(1, 0) 316 I suppose Mrs. Richards will never get over it that Davy Morgan didn't marry her Jinnie after all?
 
(1, 0) 318 They thought a lot of his wife down there at the Paris House, and I'll say this for her whatever─that bonnet she made for our Sarah when Matthew died was almost enough to make a woman thankful to be a widow.
 
(1, 0) 322 Who?
 
(1, 0) 329 And, of course, I told him he'd better come back in the morning.
(1, 0) 330 Oh!
(1, 0) 331 It's Mrs. Morgan!
 
(1, 0) 337 It's your first baking, I suppose, Mrs. Morgan?
 
(1, 0) 345 Er─how long did you say you'd been married?
 
(1, 0) 350 No, I'm not making fun, Mrs. Morgan.
(1, 0) 351 But it isn't a woman's business to get her husband everything he wants.
 
(1, 0) 355 Well, I'd say now it's her business to keep him from wanting everything she can't get.
 
(1, 0) 358 Never you mind then.
(1, 0) 359 You will some day.
 
(1, 0) 363 I wonder!
 
(1, 0) 366 Every woman's husband is an exception, Mrs. Morgan─-when she's only been married a month.
 
(1, 0) 377 Don't you vex about them, Mrs. Morgan.
(1, 0) 378 They're not worth it.
 
(1, 0) 381 Aay.
(1, 0) 382 Then she'd see; and, if you'll excuse me mentioning it, that was a grand little bonnet you made for our Sarah─
 
(1, 0) 385 Yes.
(1, 0) 386 But, to-day, when the talk is of baking, I can hold up my head with any woman in the valley.
(1, 0) 387 And I've got my own tins, too, with my name on them.
(1, 0) 388 Wara tég i Evan!
(1, 0) 389 He does take a pride in the bread.
(1, 0) 390 What did you: use, Mrs. Morgan, yeast or barm?
 
(1, 0) 395 Wh-a-a-t?
 
(1, 0) 397 Top Shop?
(1, 0) 398 Last night?
 
(1, 0) 402 Did you try it, Mrs. Morgan?
 
(1, 0) 404 Yes.
(1, 0) 405 Mix it with warm water and sprinkle flour on it, and put it on the hob to see if it would rise?
 
(1, 0) 415 Let me see.
(1, 0) 416 You're living in Tredegar Terrace.
(1, 0) 417 Have you got any of that yeast left?
 
(1, 0) 421 Keep it?
 
(1, 0) 424 You'd better run home quick, and bring me a bit to look at.
 
(1, 0) 432 Betsi?
 
(1, 0) 434 That bread won't rise with that Top Shop yeast─not if you leave it there till Judgment Day!
 
(1, 0) 436 Pity for her, too, mind you!
(1, 0) 437 She's young; that's all.
 
(1, 0) 439 Can't we do something, Betsi?
(1, 0) 440 I don't like to think of her looking simple before all the others, and her only newly married.
 
(1, 0) 445 It's the Richardses!
 
(1, 0) 459 Good night to you, Mrs. Richards.
(1, 0) 460 How are you, Miss Richards?
 
(1, 0) 485 Oh yes, Mrs. Richards, often!
 
(1, 0) 510 Oh! he's eating his allowance pretty hearty, thank you, Mrs. Richards.
 
(1, 0) 514 I'm sure she will, Mrs. Richards.
 
(1, 0) 518 Every new broom sweeps clean, as we all know.
 
(1, 0) 520 Well, I wouldn't like to be the one to say so, Mrs. Richards; but you ought to know your own husband best─
 
(1, 0) 525 Oh!
(1, 0) 526 I beg your pardon.
(1, 0) 527 I didn't understand.
(1, 0) 528 MRS. PRICE
 
(1, 0) 530 Understand, indeed!
 
(1, 0) 565 They can, Mrs. Richards.
 
(1, 0) 568 Very much what they were yesterday, I expect.
(1, 0) 569 Of course, Davy Morgan took us all by surprise up here on the Twmp, so sure we were he'd fixed his mind somewhere else─
 
(1, 0) 573 Oh!
(1, 0) 574 No offence, Miss Richards fach.
(1, 0) 575 No offence.
(1, 0) 576 I was only just saying like; that's all─
 
(1, 0) 578 Oh, yes!
(1, 0) 579 Only, of course, in a way of speaking, it means you've got to go on fishing.
 
(1, 0) 592 Yes.
(1, 0) 593 Here I am, Maggie fach.
(1, 0) 594 Dewch yma, merch i.
 
(1, 0) 597 The bread won't be long now.
 
(1, 0) 607 Did you say thank you?
(1, 0) 608 MAGGIE
 
(1, 0) 610 Yes.
 
(1, 0) 612 As bread goes about here, mine isn't so bad.
 
(1, 0) 615 Well─er─yes.
(1, 0) 616 Three small.
 
(1, 0) 621 But it's quite enough twice a week, isn't it, Maggie fach?
 
(1, 0) 624 It is, indeed.
(1, 0) 625 And since you: happened to mention husbands, did Mrs. Evans here: show you the likenesses─
 
(1, 0) 628 Yes─her two husbands─
 
(1, 0) 631 Yes, Yanto and Zachariah.
(1, 0) 632 Framed beautiful, too, I can tell you.
 
(1, 0) 634 I thought you'd have shown them, Betsi─
 
(1, 0) 641 Get them out for five minutes.
(1, 0) 642 I've got an idea.
 
(1, 0) 649 Now, Maggie, fy nghariad i, stand by the door and tell me if you see anyone coming.
 
(1, 0) 654 And mindia di nawr, Maggie, if anyone was to ask you, it's only three loaves we've baked to-day.
 
(1, 0) 656 P'raps so.
(1, 0) 657 But there's only three if they ask you.
(1, 0) 658 Let me see now─in the corner by the wall.
(1, 0) 659 Dyna fe!
(1, 0) 660 Dyna fe!
(1, 0) 661 There's plenty of lies being told every day to do people harm.
(1, 0) 662 I'm sure the Almighty can excuse just one to help a young married woman baking her first bread.
(1, 0) 663 I've been young myself; and I know what it is.
 
(1, 0) 665 Ach y fi!
(1, 0) 666 No more like bread than I'm like the Queen of England!
 
(1, 0) 669 Anyone coming, Maggie?
 
(1, 0) 671 Nawr ta!
(1, 0) 672 Two of mine.
 
(1, 0) 674 There's no mark on them, thank goodness!
 
(1, 0) 677 Look you down the road.
(1, 0) 678 The less you see in this old world the less there is to tell lies about.
 
(1, 0) 680 Anybody coming?
(1, 0) 681 MAGGIE.
(1, 0) 682 No.
 
(1, 0) 684 Mrs. Morgan may have brought in two tins of putty.
(1, 0) 685 But if Mrs. Richards is going to look on, Mrs. Morgan will be taking out as good bread as any in this blessed bakehouse to-night.
(1, 0) 686 And that's a slap in the face for old mother Richards!
(1, 0) 687 Now you just run home and forget, Maggie fach.
(1, 0) 688 It takes a woman as wicked as me to deal with a woman as good as Mrs. Richards.
(1, 0) 689 And if anything shifts me off this old box for a bit, it'll be nothing short of sudden death.
 
(1, 0) 692 Cera shathre, Maggie.
(1, 0) 693 Cera waft!
 
(1, 0) 711 Well, Betsi, how about the bread?
 
(1, 0) 716 Oh!
(1, 0) 717 Come back you have, Mrs. Morgan?
(1, 0) 718 Brought me that bit of yeast, I hope?
 
(1, 0) 722 Thank you very much.
 
(1, 0) 724 Lovely bit of yeast it is, too.
(1, 0) 725 Here's the bread coming out now, however!
 
(1, 0) 730 Got mine there, Betsi?
 
(1, 0) 734 Three.
(1, 0) 735 That's my lot.
 
(1, 0) 753 Not so bad, indeed!
(1, 0) 754 What do you say, Mrs. Richards?
 
(1, 0) 757 I'm sure you are.
 
(1, 0) 761 A nice bit of bread, Mrs. Morgan─a good bit of bread.
(1, 0) 762 Might be a bit more even in the crust, p'raps; but a tidy bit of bread.
(1, 0) 763 I wouldn't be ashamed to see it in my own tins.
 
(1, 0) 774 Well, it's very kind of you asking, Mrs. Morgan.
 
(1, 0) 776 All right, to-morrow.
(1, 0) 777 Diolch yn fawr.
 
(1, 0) 781 I think I'd better come at four, Mrs. Morgan.
 
(1, 0) 785 Yes, I'd like a little chat to ourselves.