Crossword-Solution: ALYN 4 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Here the Dee winds about a good deal, and receives its beautiful, dashing tributary, the Alyn, which runs through the Vale of Gresford and waters the park of Trevallyn Old Hall, one of the loveliest of old English homes.

Copied for Miss Agnes FitzGibbon, of Toronto, by Alyn Williams, President of the Miniature Painters' Association of Great Britain, 1897, and not hitherto published.

Alyn Williams, the President of the Society of Miniature Painters, to whom the Society owes its origin and prosperity, tells a good story which he does not claim to be original.

Merrylees._] A BONNIE BAIRN.] [Illustration: [_By Alyn Williams._ A "GAINSBOROUGH" PORTRAIT.] Miss Merrylees, whose miniatures, seven in number, make a fine show at the Academy, once had to paint a miniature of a clergyman; but the only way of getting his right expression was to make him recite long poems and dramatic scenes from Shakespeare.

The Alyn enters the county under Moel Fammau, passes Cilcen and Mold (_y Wyddgrug_), runs underground near Hesb-Alyn (Alyn's drying-up), bends south to Caergwrle, re-enters Denbighshire and joins the Dee.