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FAMOUS SONGS
wrote in English and Professor Rowlands in Welsh, I here give: "There is an old wife's tale which states that Tom, Dick, and Ned (the original air is called ' Ffarwel Die Bibydd'— ' Dick the Piper's Farewell') went to visit the Black Cave, near Criccieth; but what makes the tale interesting is that they went and forgot to return, and by this time, doubtless, few of their relatives expect them or expect to hear from them. The Shepherd of Braich y Bib noticed them at the mouth of the cave. Dick the piper played on a flute, and the other two carried lights before him. In five minutes the music changed and Little Tom played another tune. Farther and farther they receded, and weaker and weaker became the sound. By-and-by the Shepherd heard another tune, and he listened to that at the cave's entrance until every note died away. Not one of them has returned to this day."
There is a very favourite fairy song called "Toriad y Dydd" (The Break of Day") which is exceedingly ancient, as may be gathered from this statement by Richard Llwyd in " Cant O Ganeuon gan Ceiriog": "In Wales, as in other pastoral districts, the fairy tales are not yet erased from the traditional tablet; and age seldom neglects to inform youth that if, on
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