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XV
THE BLAST OF GOD
Owen TygwynTygwyn is the zinc-roofed house that is in a group of trees at the back of Capel Sion—was ploughing when his wife Shan came to the break in the hedge, crying:
“For what you think, little man? Dai is hanging in the cowhouse. Come you now and see to him.”
Owen ended the furrow and unharnessed the horse, which he led into the stable and fed with hay. Then he unravelled the knot in the rope which had choked the breath of his son Dai. When he was finished and Dai was laid on the floor of the cowhouse, Shan said to him:
“Eat you your middle-of-the-day
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