Folk Tales of Breffny

the world of man. He never controlled his speech but took delight in letting great oaths

on them and they regarding the villainy of his heart lepping out at his mouth with the words speaking. All

out on a summer's day, and it was blows they gave one another until a strong perspiration ran down from them and the air moved before their eyes like the stars

death of his companion, evenly if the power of the lonesome grave i

he words were spoken he died

, where rich and poor are alike and the strong have no mastery above the weak. But in a short

right [41]thing surely. There was such a fluttering of dread on the boy that he could not endeavour for to run, but he stood like a growing rush does be waving with

g beast, the way he'll get bringing me the dark destruction he promised, a

him. Three times it struck him, the way he was tormented with the agony of the goring horns. With tha

g on his escape. Didn't a second warning come in

nding leps, and the eyes of it were glowing

le 'tis an ill hour stands before me: the like of yon beast will be middling weighty

e great black goat threw its strength against him in the field. Three sore batterings he be to endure, th

passing of time restored his mind to a better pe

the field, and the appearance of a great

arty laugh, and he

death from the like," says he. "And how would it be possible a

nce of the turkey cock opened the joining of his skull with one blow of the beak like a sharpened knife was upon it.

s companion promised him, and the dark oath was

nd is well known to this present that the soul quits the body by the joining of the skull. The eyes have seen evil, the ears have heard it, and the mouth has made laughter and speech of the same: [44]how then would they be a right and a fit