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Rh in their proper places, but couched in different language, while he introduces a run of his own which the Irish has not got, in describing the swift movement of the kerne. Every time the kerne is asked where he comes from, the Highlander makes him say—

In the Irish MS. the kerne always says—

Again, whenever the kerne plays his harp the Highlander says:—

"He could play tunes and oirts and orgain, Trampling things, tightening strings, Warriors, heroes, and ghosts on their feet, Ghosts and souls and sickness and fever,