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Rh They were pointed just the same as the ears on a terrier. Wasn't it wonderful that no one had ever noticed that before; that he should have pointed ears, and no one see it? I'm thinking that was a great wonder.

"Now after that, things settled down as before. Andy MacDonnell lived on with Carr at the Castle, and there was nothing much happened, except a little child was born to Clelia; and that was a queer thing, the child was. It was a little wee man of a child, and he was born with teeth in him, and the first thing his mother saw of him was that his ears were pointed; and the nurses said that that was a great shame, and she so beautiful a mother. There were other things, besides that, which seemed queer. Andy MacDonnell was another sort of a man than he had been. He used to go up beyond, in the back hills, at the time of a new moon. He got a bad name on to him for doing that; but that was nothing to what they caught him doing another time on the back hills, beyond the wood there. There's a flat place there, where they used to hold cock fights in the old times. It was a religious place before that, where they did