Huw was also sixteen years old. He worked eight hours a day, five days a week in the village coal mine.
He had never known his mother, she had died when he was born.
His father and his two brothers, Richard and Gareth, had been his family and they had lost Richard- killed two years before while he was fighting in North Africa and Gareth had an accident in a coal mine and he died too.
His father, David Thomas was an old man, he didn't work, he was a desperate man and he drank a lot because his wife and two sons were dead. He wanted to go to Toronto, Canada with Huw.
Huw left his beloved Megan, he wrote to her but Megan's father hid his letters.
Fifty years later she found them and wrote to him. They ended up together.
Huw was a tall, handsome man whose face was brown from the sun. He was a great artist, he painted really well.