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Rh rope made of goat's hair and fastened one end through the hole and the other to the stern of her boat. Having made it secure she got into the boat and started to row. And as she rowed, Scariff was dragged away from Dursey and followed her out into the sea.

Now Deenish, a neighbouring farm, was Scariff's sweetheart, and when she saw Scariff going off like that, she followed him. So the old woman was rowing over to Bolus, never once looking behind her, with Scariff tied to her boat and Deenish following after. Just as she was halfway across she heard people playing hurley on Inny Strand, and the noise of a great blow as if a ball had been struck by a strong man and then a great shouting as if they had won a goal. "There's only one man could hit as strong a blow as that," said she. "It's Finn MacCool," and with that she turned round to look at the match, and, sure enough, it was Finn MacCool and his men playing. But when she turned back to her rowing she found the charm was broken and Scariff had taken anchor, and not an inch could she move it though she rowed and pulled and pulled and rowed. At last she got up in the boat and pulled at the rope with both her hands, and still Scariff wouldn't move, and she gave a great tug and the rope broke and she fell into the sea and was drowned. 40 St. George's Square S.W. 1.

is well known that it is generally considered unlucky to see the new moon for the first time through glass. I have recently come across a case in which it was believed that it was not legal to swear to something that had been seen through glass. I have heard of the idea before, but a few days since a man consulted me about his wife. He had been told that a woman, looking through the partly opened door of his house, had seen a man in a compromising situation with his wife. I advised him nothing could be done unless he brought the witness to my office, and I found that her story was reliable, and I could get