"To the husband and wife of the house, the children and the servants, and all of you who are here sleeping and getting up. I am a messenger and a bidder for John Jones of Bryntirion and Mary Davies of Pantyblodau; I beg to invite you, both old and young, to the bidding and wedding of the young couple I have just mentioned, who intend to marry on Wednesday, three weeks to the next, at Llansadwrn Church. The young man and his company on that morning will be leaving his father and mother's house at Bryntirion, in the parish of Llansadwrn; and the young woman will be leaving that same morning from the house of her father and mother, that is Pantyblodau, in the parish of Llanwrda. On that morning the shigouts (seekouts) men will go on behalf of the young man to seek for the young woman; and the young man and his company will meet the young woman and her company at the top of Heolgelli, and there they will be, on foot and on horses, going with the young couple who are to be married at Llansadwrn Church. After that, the young husband and wife, and the young people's company, will be going together to the house of the young husband and wife, to wit, Llety'r Gofid, in the parish of Tally, where the young man, the young man's father and mother, and Daniel Jones, brother of the young man, and Jane Jones, the young man's sister, desire that all donations and pwython due to them be paid that afternoon to the hands of the young man; and the young man, his father and mother, his brother and sister, and Dafydd Shon William Evan, uncle of the young man, will be very thankful for every additional gifts you will be pleased to give in favour of the young man that day. "Also, the young wife, together with her father and mother, Dafydd and Gwenllian Davies, together with her brothers and sisters, the young wife and Dafydd William Shinkin Dafydd of Cwm, the young wife's grandfather, desire that all donations and pwython, due to them, be paid that afternoon to the hand of the young husband and wife at Llety'r Gofid. "The young husband and wife and those who'll live the longest, do promise to repay you every gift you will be pleased to give to the young couple, whenever called upon to do so, should that happen next morning or at any other time?" The Bidder then repeated in Welsh a most comic and humorous song for the occasion. Another well-known "Gwahoddwr," or Bidder in Cardiganshire was an old man named Stephen, who flourished at the end of the eighteenth, and the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was commonly known as Stephen Wahoddwr, or Stephen the Bidder, and concerning whom the celebrated poet "Daniel Ddu o Geredigion," wrote to the "Cambrian Briton," in March, 1822, as follows:--