sentences:  After being away for thirteen months he was fortunate to regain his old job.After a slump in 1869 he was placed on short time, he switched to a tinplate works in Swansea.It was around the 1870s that he became known as a singer and poet, adopting the eisteddfod name Gwilym Mabon, soon Mabon was the title by which he would be best known.