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12 o'clock in she came, and he put his arms around her, but as he said, felt no substance.

" You can't keep me now," says she, " for I'm married agin ; but if you come to the Bottle Hill field to-morrow night, there will be about 40 of us goin' t'words Blarney, and we will all be on horses, with our husbands. All the horses will be white, and I and my man will be last. Bring a hazel stick woud [with] you and strike the horse on the right side, and I will fall off. Just as I fall, ketch me with all your might. You will know my man, for he is the only one of them that has a red head."

Well, he went, and he must have a great heart, for on they come, gallopin' like mad. Just as the man with the red head's horse came he stood one-side and struck. She fell and he gripped her like iron. Well, such a hullabaloo as there was, was never heard, and all the other men makin' game of the red-headed man.

Well, he brought her home, and they lived for years after, and had a good family, and were the happiest people around the place. I often see some of her children ; of course they are all married now, and gone here and there, but that's as true as my name is Tim Brosnan. — Told by Tim Brosnan, Dungeagan, Co. Kerry.

The Cat.

There is at present living in C h the subject of this, which

I am going to tell you, a fine, decent and sensible woman ; you could be talking to her for twelve months, and a bad word about her neighbour you would not hear from her. Well, one night about 8 years ago, she was taking a walk out the road, and she did not notice until the evening began to grow a bit dark. Well, she came to a place called Caherelly, where there is a fort, and an old ruin, and outside the ruin there is a bit of a wall. As she came near the wall, she noticed what she thought was a small cat or pusheen, and as she approached, the cat came of a jump down on the ground, and began to get big, until it got that big that it blocked the road. The fright she got caused her to faint, and there she remained until a man. with a