A MAN, hin brown hair and a pale

    face, he road

    t o town

    of the Shelly River. Many called him Cum-

    he son of Cormac, and many called

    , ild horse; and he was

    a glee man, and  parti-

    coloured doublet, and ed shoes,

    and a bulging . Also he

    blood of th-place

    ing and

    sleeping places he four provinces of

    Eri, and  upon

    trayed

    from toe Friars

    and totlements to a row of

    crosses  against the sky

    upon a tle to the

    town, and , and shook

    it at they were

    not empty, for ttering

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    about t how, as like

    as not, just sucher vagabond as

    hem; and

    tered;  If it were hanging or bow-

    stringing, or stoning or be would

    be bad enoug to he birds

    pecking your eyes and ting

    your feet ! I  the red wind

    of thered in his cradle

    t the

    tree of deat of barbarous lands, or

    t tning, e Dathi

    at t of tain, ten

    his grave had been dug

    by toothed

    merro ts of the deep

    sea.

    hile he spoke, he shivered from head

    to foot, and t came out upon

    why, for

    he had looked upon many crosses. he

    passed over tle-

    ment Ed gate, and t-

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    udded  nails, and , her

    wer, and of him he asked

    a place in t-he lay

    brotook a glourf on a shovel,

    and led to a big and naked out-

    rey rushes; a