bed?' 'Perhaps I had,' he replied faintly, and his brother John carried him upstairs and laid him on the bed. Then he fainted. Recovering from that, he was tenderly put to bed and the physician immediately sent for. The messenger found the doctor at work setting a man's limb. That caused delay, and an hour at least must have elapsed before the physician arrived. During the long wait he gasped for breath. The pain was agonizing; yet he prayed incessantly, and his face shone radiantly as he repeated again and again the words, 'Iesu anwyl.'—'Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly' The gasping and the praying continued until the physician arrived. Dr. Hall, taking R.'s hand in his, asked, 'Are you in pain?' 'Bodily, yes,' he replied; 'lam suffering terribly' 'Are you happy?' 'Perfectly happy! perfectly happy!' 'How about the Savior?' 'He is every-thing to me now' Dr. H. then said, 'I can give some carbonate of ammonia. It will stop the gasping if you choose to take it' Richard replied, 'Yes, anything so it will ease the bodily pain' So the doctor gave it him.
The sisters had taken turns at setting at his back, propping him up with pillows; now, at his request, he was laid down on his right side, gasping having ceased. Placing his hand under his head, as though he were composing himself to sleep, he remained quietly in that position without moving again. At 7 p.m. the physician signaled that all was over. Thus passed away the beloved, lamented Risiart Ddu, ' extolling with his tongue ' his Savior, while strength lasted."
The same writer also pays the following tribute to the devotedness of Risiart Ddu's mother to him in his last illness:—
