Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of IrelandContains forty tales descriptive of Irish superstitions. |
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Page 153 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Page 143 - ... in the face, and never the word did he say, but lifting up his tail, he splashed me all over again with the cold salt water till there wasn'ta dry stitch upon my whole carcass; and I heard somebody saying - 'twas a voice I knew too - "Get up, you drunken brute, off of that;" and with that I woke up, and there was Judy with a tub full of water, which she was splashing all over me - for, rest her soul!
Page 127 - Ne let mischievous witches with their charms, Ne let hobgoblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not.
Page 92 - All thinking that the priest would have done so, as he ought if he had done his duty, no one wished to take the word out of his mouth, which unfortunately was preoccupied with pig's head and greens.
Page 338 - I come," answered Robin, with as much boldness as he could put on — for his heart was almost fainting within him — " I come," said he, " to claim Philip Ronayne, whose time, of service is out this night.
Page 86 - Success," said the little man; " and you're heartily welcome, Billy ; but don't think to cheat me as you have done others, — out with your purse and pay me like a gentleman." " Is it I pay you ?" said Billy : " could I not just take you up and put you in my pocket as easily as a blackberry ?" " Billy Mac Daniel," said the little man, getting very angry, " you shall be my servant for seven years and a day, and that is the way I will be paid ; so make ready to follow me.
Page 31 - I'm fifteen hundred years in the world, and I never saw a brewery of egg-shells before!" The poker was by this time quite red, and Mrs. Sullivan seizing it, ran furiously towards the cradle ; but somehow or other her foot slipped, and she fell flat on the floor, and the poker flew out of her hand to the other end of the house. However, she got up, without much loss of time, and went to the cradle intending to pitch the wicked thing that was in it into the pot of boiling water, when there she saw...
Page 17 - ... with instant resolve it was determined to bring the mortal among them, whose musical skill so far exceeded theirs, and little Lusmore was conveyed into their company with the eddying speed of a whirlwind. Glorious to behold was the sight that burst upon him as he came down through the moat, twirling round and round and round with the lightness of a straw, to the sweetest music that kept time to his motion.
Page 43 - And here is the bottle,' said the old man, smiling; 'you know what to do with it.' 'Oh! then, sure I do, as good right I have.' 'Well, farewell for ever, Mick Purcell: I told you you would be a rich man.
Page 184 - ... girl. In short, Dick was a happy man, and so he might have continued to the end of his days, if he had only the sense to take proper care of what he had got ; many another man, however, beside Dick, has not had wit enough to do that. One day when Dick was obliged to go to Tralee, he left...