Hence the ensuing
lines in a poem, called The Head of the Rock:--
'Behold Llangunnor, leering o'er the vale,
Pourtrays a scene t' adorn romantic tale;
But more than all the beauties of its site,
Its former owner gives the mind delight.
Is there a heart that can't affection feel
For lands so rich as once to boast a Steele?
Who warm for freedom, and with virtue fraught,
His country dearly lov'd, and greatly taught;
Whose morals pure, the purest style conveys,
T' instruct his Britain to the last of days.'"
Steele resided at White House (Ty Gwyn, as it is called in Welsh), a clean
farm-house half way between Caermarthen and Llangunnor church, which is
situate on a hill commanding extensive views of one of the prettiest values
in Wales. A field near the house is pointed out as the site of Steele's
garden, in the bower of which he is said to have written his "Conscious
Lovers." The Ivy Bush, formerly a private house, and said to be the house
where Steele died, is now the principal inn in Caermarthen.
WM. SPURRELL.
Caermarthen.
_Cure for Warts_ (Vol. i., p. 482.)-- In Buckinghamshire I have heard of
the charming away of warts by touching each wart with a separate green pea.
Each pea being wrapped in paper by itself, and buried, the wart will vanish
as the pea decays.
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