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met the goat again. " What brings you here ? " says the goat. " My wife," said the man, " looking for wonders." " Come along," said the goat, "and I'll show her wonders enough." The goat went to their door then, and pucked at it. The servant then got up, and they had no matches in the house. The goat went in anyway, and so it must have been a spirit. And the girl put her hand on the goat's back, and could not relieve herself. The servant boy then got up, and left his hand on the girl, and stuck on also. The old woman then got up, (as was the man's wife), and she laid her hand on the servant boy's back, feeling her way in the darkness, and stuck on again. The goat thejii looked at the door, and it opened, (because ye know he could not get through the door with all those people on his back).

"Have I got the lot of them now?" says the goat to the old man as was outside. " Yes, ye have," says the old man. Away with them all then, and they was after going a long way along the road when they met a man with a large shovel. Then the man gave the old woman a tip with the shovel. He was surprised, ye know, to see that great number of people, all on the back of the goat. And the shovel stuck on, and he with the shovel. Then they met a carpenter and the carpenter gave them a tip with his hammer, and he was stuck on in the same way. Then they went into a large city, and then the goat disappeared, and relieved them then.

And they all had to travel about fifty miles home and without a stitch of clothing on them.

29. The History of Sleady Castle,

There was a gentleman called Mr. MacGrath as lived in Moun- tain Castle, and in Irish he was called Soidin Pilip, as means in English Silken Philip, and he got married to one Mary Power from Curraghmore. Well, they were married for some time before he brought her to his home, and when she see the little jjlace (as was nothing like where she came from), she wouldn't go into the house at all, for she said that her father's stables were a bettet residence for her. So the wedding dinner was served for them, and she wouldn't enter at all. So they went back together to Curraghmore, and he thought then that he'd build Sleady Castle for her to live in