A collection of proverbs, colloquialisms, allegorical expressions and riddles, including extracts from the works of a number of poets.

The treatment of English borrowed words in colloquial Welsh by Thomas Powel, reprinted from the Transactions of the Philosophical Society of London, with a covering letter from Thomas Powel to Thomas Darlington, 1891, and annotations by the latter.

An essay entitled 'The Legend of Pont ar Vynach : Folklore collected chiefly in the Counties of Cardigan, Pembroke and Glamorgan' by John Griffith ('Pentrefwr'), and some proverbs and colloquial expressions collected in southern Pembrokeshire by T. C. Evans ('Cadrawd').