When Mr. Lloyd George, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Megan Lloyd George, appeared on the platform, a great shout of welcome went. up. He jocularly asked for a show. of hands of those among the audience familiar with the Welsh language, and the contrary, and in ra parlance there was only one in but he considerately spoke his presidential address partly in his native tongue and partly in English.
The Chairman, in introducing him, said he came from the north, and' Mr. Lloyd George retorted by. saying he came from both south, and north, and a voice interpolated "Manchester," to which he quoted, the words of the old ballad: "I was born a little Welshman, but far from my country am I residing.
He eulogized the Eisteddfod, with its sea of song, its great music and throngs coming to see the chairing of the Bard as not a passing, stunt but something which was running deep through the heart of the people and through their sentiments,
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