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

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').

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.