Grandfather had a stone yard in Paul, where he cut and shaped the rough granite that he had brought from the quarry. His yard was at the end of a lane, behind the pub. A scree of granite littered the site, speckled with feldspar, quartz and mica. In the hedges around the yard there were groundsel, nettles and dock, that drooped in the heat in summer. Above the corrugated iron roof of the shed there was a wooden crane like a mast. In the shed, through spiders’ webs, gold leaf (for gravestones) glittered sometimes.
An tas gwynn a’n jevo garth men yn Pawl, le may treghi ha shapya ev an growan garow hag a dhrosa dhyworth an mengleudh. Yth esa y arth dhe’n penn a vownder, a-dryv an diwotti. Radel a rowan a strolya an tyller, brith gans feldspar, kanndir, ha mica. Y’n keow a-dro dhe’n garth, yth esa madra, linas ha tavol, hag a benndroppya y’n pothter yn hav. A-ugh to horn gevryllys an krow, yth esa garan brennek kepar ha gwern. Y’n krow, dre wiasow kevnis, delen-owr (rag meyn bedh) a derlentri treweythyow.langbot langbot