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24. The Ghost of Mr. Healy.

There was two men went to cut down a stick [to repair a cart with] on the estate of Rochfield, and, as they got there and as they had the sticks nearly cut, the ghost of Mr. Healy, the former owner of the place, appeared on the scene on horseback, though he was never known to ride a horse during his life. Then the men got frightened, and they couldn't pull the saw for fright, and one of them fainted, and the other remained nursing him until the cock crew. Then Mr. Healy left, and they finished cutting the stick, and took it home along with them, and they had to pay very dear for that stick.

25. The Foundifig of Dungarioti,

About half a mile from Gallows Hill there's a hole in a field which is the same shape as the hill, and it measures accurately the height and circumference of the hill. It is said that it was Fionn MacCumhall that threw [the content of] this hole over which forms Gallows Hill, and it is thought surely, without any doubt, that Dungarton is under Gallows Hill. It is supposed that, when the town of Dungarton was about to be built at this place, that they were advised to build a house near the water, and that it was better to have a town near the water than to have to carry the water to the town.

26. Hoiv the Clergy became U fires tf id for Motiey.

There was a man of a time who sold a cow at a fair to another man, and of course the man as bought the cow went home with his cow. So when he got home his wife asked him, — "What did he give for the cow ? " And so he told her. Then she told him that he had been very dishonest, and that he had cheated the man. So the other man, he went home and his wife asked him what he got for the cow. And he told her also. And she said that he'd robbed the man, and that he'd accepted too much money for the cow. So the man as bought the cow agreed to go back with a pound to the man that he bought the cow from, and the other man agreed to go back and return a pound to the other, so that each man was returning a pound. So they met half way, and each of them was trying to return a pound to the other, and either of