coat. I was next morning somewhat lighter both in body and mind, and reached Lampeter, where I preached on a text suitable to my condition: "It is good to me to be afflicted." Here I was informed of a remarkable robbery that had been committed on Friday night in a tailor's house of the sum of two hundred and eleven pounds, while the poor man and his family were hearing a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Perkins. This poor fellow's fate I thought remarkably hard, having lost his all in the compass of such short time. Man, say I, in the words of Holy Writ, is born to troubles, as the sparks fly upward. Here you have all that is interesting in my peregrination, and perhaps more than I ought to have wrote had I not time on my hands.
You will be so kind as to give my best respects to Mr. Gentleman and to Mr. Peter Williams, and all my good friends and benefactors at Rhyd y Gors and Carmarthen. They have a share in my prayers, which is all the retribution I am capable of making. I hope you have received the books from Mr. John Meredith. As to the box of clothes, I thought it best it should remain in his custody till I could be fixed in some place, and be able to send for it. I should be glad to receive a long-winded epistle from you, directed as above.
I am, with truth and sincerity, your affectionate friend and most obliged humble servant,
