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Rh Page 32, line 14. —this is only the English word, "Hie-over." Line 21. = a docking, a kind of a weed.

Page 36, line 2. , "the sword of three edges." In the last century both and the  would have been eclipsed. Cf. the song, "."

Page 40, line 33. = balsam. Line 25. , the English word "witch." The Scotch Gaels have also the word bhuitseachas = witchery. Gaelic organs of speech find it hard to pronounce the English tch, and make two syllables of it—it-sha.

Page 42, line 21. = snoring.

Page 44, line 3, for read. Line 16. = steel, as opposed to iron.

Page 46, line 21. = to put hay together, or gather up crops.

Page 48, line 1. = a stitch, sudden pain.

Page 52, line 15. a common expression of disgust in central Connacht, both in Irish and in English. Line 18. . This word is pronounced hulla in central Connacht, and it probably gets this h sound from the final  of, which used to be always put before it. Father Eugene O'Growney tells me that the guttural sound of this is still heard before  in the Western islands, and would prefer to write the word. When follows the noun, as, "all the people," it has the sound of ellik or ellig, probably from the original phrase being , contracted into , or even, as in West Galway, into.

Page 54, line 9. = "appetite," properly "stomach." Line 30. = the trouble, but better written, since feminine nouns, whose first letter is or , are seldom aspirated after the article. There is even a tendency to omit the aspiration from adjectives beginning with the letters and. Compare the celebrated song of, not.

Page 56, line 4. = a disease. Line 24. and are usual Connacht infinitives of  and. Line 21. = a stream. Line 26. = dragging along. Line 32. , often pronounced like leffernugh = weeds.

Page 60, line 8. or = "I am better;", more rightly,  = He's getting better. Line 22. , pronounced musha, not mosha, as spelt, or often even mush in Central Connacht. Line 28. , infinitive of, to live. = striving, running a race with.

Page 64, line 4. = "it comes with me," "I can." This is a phrase in constant use in Connacht, but scarcely even known in parts of Munster. Line 15. = as much as the size of an egg. Line 23. = de novo, over again.

Page 66, line 2. = touching the water.

Page 66, line 15. = "to feel." It is pronounced in central Connacht like (mweehee), and is often used for "to hear;"  = I heard that before. Line 20. is either active or passive; it means colloquially either to frighten or to become frightened.

Page 68, line 12. = wait where you are, = remain as you are. Line 17. , short for, means "at all." In Munster they say.

Page 70, line 3. = "why;" this is the usual word in Connacht, often contracted to.

Page 72, line 13. = Westport.

Page 74, line 7. , a word not in the dictionaries; it means, I think, "gambolling." Line 20. = seize, control. Line 22. = black mud.

Page 76, line 2. = "damage," "harm." There are a great many