The London Welshman

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The Children's Column. My DEAR NIECES AND NEPHEWS, How do you all keep up this bitter cold weather ? I am afraid some of you have been down with influenza or some other ailment, as I have not heard from you for some time. I also have felt the teeth of that enemy. When you and I are in that state, with the wind so cold and the earth so damp, romping together is not very pleasant. But never mind, the days are lengthening, and I saw some birds on the twigs in the garden the other afternoon, and the birds are beginning to twitter again. But Mr. Editor tells me that my letter to you this week must be short, and as there are no answers to questions to be given this time, I can more easily obey the tyrant's wish (let me whisper it in your ears that he is almost as bad as a Russian bear). Now I am going to give you this week questions of a different kind to any I have given you yet. I hope you will like them and that you will get some fun in trying, to find out the answers. Some English young, friends of mine have had great fun with somewhat similar puzzles which they saw in some paper or other. What do you think of these ? All the words and names are Welsh of course. 1. Numerical Charade:- My 5, 2, 3, 4, 1, is a Welsh girl. My 9, 11, 2, 5, is disagreeable. My 1, 6, 10, 3, 4, is a Welsh fairy. My 5, IO, 11, is a grown up. My whole, composed of 11 letters, is a. great Welsh historical character. 2. Hidden names of Welsh places. Dyma berllan a berthyn i mi. Hi yw y fwyaf bert a welwyd erioed. Efe a'i ca er dy ddanedd. Y lleban gorweddiog. P'le mae mae nentydd ewinedd y fran ? Bum yn y pentre gar Onwy deg. 3. Diamond (the same word reads across. and down). A consonant. A swimming thing. A wild and useful animal. Parent. A consonant. Send in your answers by Thursday as usual,. and address, Wncwl Huw," care of LONDON WELSHMAN, 45, St. Martin's Lane, W.C.

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the great light." He was a countryman and was trembling with emotion. What the Lights are Like. We watched the light together. It seemed to me to be at about twice the height of the chapel, say 50ft., and it stood out with electric vividness against the encircling hills behind. Suddenly it disappeared, having lasted about a minute and a half. I leaned against the stone wall by the wayside and waited for further developments, the country- man leaving me and making his way alone. Again the chapel windows were the only lights in all the country-side. The minutes crept by, and it was twenty-five minutes to nine before I saw anything else. Then two lights flashed out, one on each side of the chapel. They seemed about icoft. apart, and considerably higher in the air than the first one. In the night it was difficult to judge distances, but I made a rough guess that they were 100ft. above the roof of the chapel. They shone out brilliantly and steadily for a space of thirty seconds. Then they both began to flicker like a defective arc-lamp. They were flickering like that while one could count ten. Then they became steady again. In the distance they looked like large and brilliant motor-car lights. They disappeared within a couple of seconds of each other. After this it was suggested that the lights would not appear again till Mrs. Jones, who was driving back from her service at Bontddu, was on her way home. I set off to walk the four lonely miles to Barmouth, stopping here and there for ten minutes to watch for fresh lights. The meadows and the open sea were whitened by the moonlight, the rocky hillsides alone were black. There was no house in sight, and the only sound was the continuous low-voiced gurgle of the water on the shore. Just after half-past ten I was startled by a flash on the dark hillside immediately on my left, and looking up I saw I was comparatively close to one of the strange lights. It was about 300ft. up the hillside, and about 500ft. from where I stood. It shone out dazzlingly, not with a white brightness, but a deep yellow brightness. It looked a solid bulb of light 6in. in diameter, and was tiring to look at. I ran at the stone wall by the side of the road, climbed it, and made a run for the light. It was gone before I had covered a dozen yards, and I could find nothing but the bare hillside. When I reached the road again I looked back along the way I had come, and saw in the road- way near the Egryn Chapel another of the bright lights. That is, baldly, what I saw. The lights are probably capable of some natural explanation, but I gave the coincidences for what they are worth. There is a little strip of marshy land close to Mrs. Jones's house, and, thinking of the will-o'-the-wisp theory, I asked if the lights had ever been seen here. I was told no. They were always seen on the hills in the neigh- bourhood of the chapel." The special correspondent is probably right when he says that there is some natural explana- tion of this strange phenomena. But until it is satis- factorily explained we must admit that there are still some things on earth, not to speak of heaven, not dreamt of in our philosophy. Nature is not yet an explored-out region, and whilst we would not, on the one hand, attach any religious meaning to these weird lights, neither would we on the other argue that they have no existence except in a diseased brain or intoxicated imagi- nation.