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The Never- spotted Leopard
Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer
Meet a tiger on the road
Robinson Jeffers
Cassandra
Y iscuid oet mynud
Erbin cath paluc
Pan gogiueirch tud.
Puy guant cath paluc.
Nau uegin kinlluc.
A cuytei in y buyd
Nau ugein kinran
The Black Book of Carmarthen
,
c
. 1250
Cath Paluc
The setting was unimprovable. Across the fields, Maiden Castle, a tur-
retted fortress of living rock, clawed at the sky. Beyond it was the
village of Wolf's Castle - Casblaidd - distinguished as one of only
twenty places in which Owain Glyndwˆ r was born (he died in quite a
few as well), and said to be the spot where the last wolf in Wales was
killed. Below us a tangled sallow carr smothered the valley.
'This gap in the hedge here: that could be where it came through.
Then it came down the bank, sauntered across the road and disap-
peared into the scrub.'
I peered into the carr on the other side of the lane. The trees were
hooded with ivy. Their mossy trunks sprawled over the ground, or
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