Welsh when they applaud noble sentiments combined with skilful versification. And while this was happening a body of two hundred young women, all wearing straw hats with red ribbons, arrived in several chars-à-bancs at the Stones, and coming into the circle stood at first astounded, and thereafter very properly formed audience for the children's play, and were silent while the Gorsedd proceeded. And after the Druid Derwen, the Druidess Caerwys, aged twelve—and she stood on yet another Stone—in turn gave forth her Ode, also addressed to the Stones, and we cried "Clywch! Clywch!" as became those who listened to valiant poetry. And during this ode certain soldiers with red crosses on their arms added themselves to our number, and the policeman came, he who guards the place from Americans who want to take it away, and two or three cyclists. And they were all amazed at the utterances of the Druidess Caerwys, and looked from the one to the other as much as to say, "What the devil is all this here?" But no notice was taken of them because we were engaged on a very serious business, and they were gross Lloegrwys, and unworthy to comprehend these mysteries.
So the Druidess Caerwys ceased and stood down, and all these chance witnesses of our Bardic doings imagined that the game of the odd children was
