The first edition of this book is dated 1866. The edition used is dated 1889. The publisher was Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London. The number of pages is 119.

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General information

This is quite a short book, taking only 2.5 hours to read, yet it packs quite a punch.

It is devoted to the theme of Forgiveness. On a remote mountainside in Wales there dwells a broken-down old woman, whom the local children believe to be a witch. As such she will live for ever, and cannot be hurt, so they amuse themselves by going to her hut, taunting her, and throwing stones at the hut. One evening one of these stones knocks a burning stick from the fire, and sets fire to the old woman, but by chance a young midshipman who has lost his way, is nearby, helps her, and takes word to the village that she is badly hurt.

The local clergyman had previously been a medical doctor, and rushes up to the hut to see what can be done. One of the local women helps with Old Mountain Moggy as well. Old Moggy shows true forgiveness to William, one of the Doctor’s sons, even though he had been one of the ringleaders in taunting her. William is very much moved by this.

Time goes on, and on his next leave the young midshipman brings one of his shipmates, Tom, to share his holiday with him. Tom tells the story of how he had been brought up, and Mountain Moggy tells her story, as well.

The story has a happy ending, after a fashion, literally on the very last page of the book.

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Contents

Chapter I.
The succession of mountain ranges, precipitous and rugged, which extend from the shores of the Irish Sea to the boundaries of England, rising tier above tier, and culminating, at different points, in the heights of Snowdon, Cader Idris, and Plinlimmon, gives to wild Wales that romantic beauty for which it is so justly celebrated.

Chapter II.
An old woman was the sole occupant of that cheerless hut on the bleak hillside just described.

Chapter III.
A good log was burning brightly on the hearth, and filling with its glowing, cheerful light the dining-room of Dr. Morgan, the new rector of the parish, where he with his wife and the younger members of his family were collected.

Chapter IV.
Dr. Morgan gave no explanation of what had occurred till Charles and Anna had left the room.

Chapter V.
The sky was bright and blue; a fresh breeze, invigorating and pure, came from the distant sea; the sun, just risen above the mountain tops, shone down with undiminished lustre on the smiling valley, and all nature sparkled with life and light, as the young Morgans, having finished breakfast, assembled at the hall-door to accompany their father on his proposed walk.

Chapter VI.
Dr. Morgan loved William fully as much as he did the rest of his children, but he saw that correction was necessary to cure him.

Chapter VII.
Frank had to return to his ship, but after a short cruise he wrote word that he had again got leave to go home; and this time he hoped to be accompanied by his shipmate, the preserver of his life, Tom Holman.

Chapter VIII.
Frank was the life of the family in the drawing-room, and Tom interested and astonished the inmates of the kitchen with the accounts he gave them of his own adventures and his young officer’s exploits and gallant deeds.

Chapter IX.
Several circumstances had prevented the young Morgans from paying a sufficiently long visit to Old Moggy to enable her to give them her promised history.

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