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  Speaker 1: Section eighteen of Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales. This is
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  Speaker 1: Celtic Folkin Fairy Tales edited by Joseph Jacobs. Section eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: Legend of KNACKMENI what Irish man, woman or child has
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  Speaker 1: not heard of our renowned Hibernian hercules, the great and
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  Speaker 1: glorious Finn mac cool, not one from Cape Clear to
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  Speaker 1: the Giant's Causeway, nor from that back again to Cape Clear.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, speaking of the Giant's Causeway brings
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  Speaker 1: me at once to the beginning of my story. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it so happened that Finn and his men were all
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  Speaker 1: working at the causeway in order to make a bridge
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  Speaker 1: across to Scotland. When Finn, who was very fond of
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  Speaker 1: his wife Ownah, took it into his head that he
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  Speaker 1: would go home and see how the poor woman got
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  Speaker 1: on in his absence. So accordingly, he pulled up a
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  Speaker 1: fir tree, and, after lopping off the roots and branches,
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  Speaker 1: made a walking stick of it, and set out on
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  Speaker 1: his way to Oah Onah, or rather Finn lived at
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  Speaker 1: this time at the very tip top of Knockmany Hill,
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  Speaker 1: which faces a cousin of its own called Cullamore, that
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  Speaker 1: rises up half hill half mountain. On the opposite side.
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  Speaker 1: There was at that time another giant named Kulhullan. Some
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  Speaker 1: say he was Irish, and some say he was Scotch.
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  Speaker 1: But whether Scotch or Irish, sorrowed doubt of it, but
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  Speaker 1: that he was a targer. No other giant of the
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  Speaker 1: day could stand before him. And such was his strength that,
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  Speaker 1: when well vexed, he could give a stamp that shook
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  Speaker 1: the country about him. The fame and name of him
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  Speaker 1: went far and near, and nothing in the shape of
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  Speaker 1: a man, it was said, had any chance with him
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  Speaker 1: in a fight. By one blow of his fists, he
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  Speaker 1: flattened a thunderbolt and kept it in his pocket, and
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  Speaker 1: the shape of a pancake to show all his enemies
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  Speaker 1: when they were about to fight him. Undoubtedly he had
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  Speaker 1: given every giant in Ireland a considerable beating, barring Finn
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  Speaker 1: mc cool himself, and he swore that he would never
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  Speaker 1: rest night or day, winter or summer till he would
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  Speaker 1: serve Finn with the same sauce if he could catch him. However,
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  Speaker 1: the short and long of it was with reverence. Be
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  Speaker 1: it spoken that Finn heard Khullan was coming to the
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  Speaker 1: Causeway to have a trial of strength with him, and
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  Speaker 1: he was seized with a very warm and sudden fit
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  Speaker 1: of affection for his wife, poor woman leading a very lonely,
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable life of it in his absence. He accordingly pulled
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  Speaker 1: up the fir tree, as I said before, and having
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  Speaker 1: snetted it into a walking stick, set out on his
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  Speaker 1: travels to see his darling ownA on the top of
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  Speaker 1: not Many, by the way. In truth, the people wondered
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  Speaker 1: very much why it was that Finn selected such a
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  Speaker 1: windy spot for his dwelling house, and they even went
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  Speaker 1: so far as to tell him as much, what can
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  Speaker 1: you may, mister mc cool, said they by pitching your
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  Speaker 1: tent upon the top of not Many, where you are
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  Speaker 1: never without a breeze day and night, winter or summer,
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  Speaker 1: and where you're often forced to take your night cap
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  Speaker 1: without either going to bed or turning up your little finger. Aye,
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  Speaker 1: And where besides this there's the sorrow's own want of water?
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  Speaker 1: Why said Finn? Ever since I was the height of
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  Speaker 1: a round tower, I was known to be fond of
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  Speaker 1: having a good prospect of my own, and where the
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  Speaker 1: Dickens neighbors could I find a better spot for a
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  Speaker 1: good prospect than the top of Knockmeny. As for water,
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  Speaker 1: I am sinking a pump and plays goodness. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as the causeways made I intend to finish it. Now
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  Speaker 1: this was more of Finn's philosophy. For the real state
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  Speaker 1: of the case was that he pitched upon the top
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  Speaker 1: of Knockmeny in order that he might be able to
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  Speaker 1: seek a hullan coming towards the house. All we have
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  Speaker 1: to say is that if he wanted a spot from
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  Speaker 1: which to keep a sharp lookout and between ourselves, he
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  Speaker 1: did want it grievously, Barring Sleeve Krub or Sleeve Dunnard
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  Speaker 1: or its own cousin Cullamore, he could not find a
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  Speaker 1: neater or more convenient situation for it in the sweet
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  Speaker 1: and sagacious province of Ulster. God save all. Here, said
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  Speaker 1: Finn good humoredly, on putting his honest face into his
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  Speaker 1: own door. Musha finn a vic and you're welcome home
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  Speaker 1: to your own own ah yer Darlin Bully. Here followed
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  Speaker 1: a smack that is said to have made the waters
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  Speaker 1: of the lake at the bottom of the hill curl,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, with kindness and sympathy. Finn spent two
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  Speaker 1: or three happy days with Oah and felt himself very
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  Speaker 1: comfortable considering the dread he had of Kohullan. This, however,
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  Speaker 1: grew upon him so much that his wife could not
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  Speaker 1: but perceive something lay on his mind, which he kept
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  Speaker 1: altogether to himself. Let a woman alone in the meantime
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  Speaker 1: for ferreting or wheedling secret out of her good man
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  Speaker 1: when she wishes. Finn was a proof of this. It's
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  Speaker 1: this Kahullan, he said, that's troubling me. When the fellow
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  Speaker 1: gets angry and begins to stamp, he'll shake you a
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  Speaker 1: whole townland. And it's well known that he could stop
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  Speaker 1: a thunderbolt, for he always carries one about him in
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  Speaker 1: the shape of a pancake, to show to any one
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  Speaker 1: that might misdoubt it. As he spoke, he clapped his
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  Speaker 1: thumb in his mouth, which he always did when he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to prophecy or to know anything that happened in
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  Speaker 1: his absence, And the wife asked him what he did
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  Speaker 1: it for, He's coming, said Finn, I see him below, dungannon.
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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness, dear, and who is it? A vict Glory
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  Speaker 1: be to God that base, Kohollan replied Finn. And how
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  Speaker 1: to manage? I don't know. If I run away, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be disgraced. And I know that sooner or later I
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  Speaker 1: must meet him, for my thumb tells me so. When
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  Speaker 1: will he be here? Said she? Tomorrow about two o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: replied Finn with a groan. Well, my bully, don't be
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  Speaker 1: cast down, said Onna. Depend on me, and maybe I'll
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  Speaker 1: bring you better out of this scrape than ever you
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  Speaker 1: could bring yourself by your rule of thumb. She then
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  Speaker 1: made a high smoke on the top of the hill,
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  Speaker 1: after which she put her finger in her mouth and
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  Speaker 1: gave three whistles. And by that Kohullan knew he was
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  Speaker 1: invited to Cullamore, for this was the way that the
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  Speaker 1: Irish long ago gave a sign to all strangers and
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  Speaker 1: travelers to let them know they were welcome to come
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  Speaker 1: and take share of whatever was going. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: Finn was very melancholy and did not know what to
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  Speaker 1: do or how to act at all. Cohollan was an
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  Speaker 1: ugly customer to meet with, and the idea of the
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  Speaker 1: cake after sudden flattened the very heart within him. What
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  Speaker 1: chance could he have? Strong and brave though he was
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  Speaker 1: with a man who could, when put in a passion,
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  Speaker 1: walk the country and earthquakes and knock thunderbolts in the pancakes,
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  Speaker 1: Finn knew not on what hand to turn him right
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  Speaker 1: or left, backward or forward? Where to go? He could
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  Speaker 1: form no guess whatsoever, Oh, Nah said he can you
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  Speaker 1: do nothing for me? Where's all your invention? Am I
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  Speaker 1: to be skiver like a rabbit before your eyes? And
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  Speaker 1: to have my name disgraced forever in the sight of
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  Speaker 1: all my tribe, and me the best man among them?
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  Speaker 1: How am I to fight this man mountain, this huge
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  Speaker 1: cross between an earthquake and a thunderbolt with a pancake
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  Speaker 1: in his pocket? That was once be easy? Finn replied Ona, truth,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ashamed of you. Keep your toe in your pump,
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  Speaker 1: will you? Talking of pancakes? Maybe will give him as
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  Speaker 1: good as any he brings with him, thunderbolt or otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: if I don't treat him to as smart a feeding
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  Speaker 1: as he's got this many a day, Never trust Ona again?
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  Speaker 1: Leave him to me and do just as I bid you.
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  Speaker 1: This relieved Finn very much, for after all, he had
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  Speaker 1: great confidence in his wife, knowing as he did that
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  Speaker 1: she had got him out of many a quandary before.
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  Speaker 1: Oa then drew the nine woolen threads of different colors,
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  Speaker 1: which she always did to find the best way of
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  Speaker 1: succeeding anything of importance she went about. She then platted
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  Speaker 1: them into three plaits with three colors in each, putting
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  Speaker 1: one on her right arm, one round her heart, and
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  Speaker 1: the third round her right ankle. For then she knew
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  Speaker 1: that nothing could fail with her that she undertook. Having
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  Speaker 1: everything now prepared, she sent round to the neighbors and
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  Speaker 1: borrowed one and twenty iron griddles, which she took and
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  Speaker 1: kneaded into the hearts of one and twenty cakes of bread,
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  Speaker 1: and these she baked on the fire in the usual way,
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  Speaker 1: setting them aside in the co according as they were done.
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  Speaker 1: She then put down a large pot of new milk,
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  Speaker 1: which she made into kourds and whey. Having done all this,
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  Speaker 1: she sat down quite contented, waiting for his arrival on
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  Speaker 1: the next day, about two o'clock, that being the hour
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  Speaker 1: at which he was expected for Finn knew as much
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  Speaker 1: by the sucking of his thumb. Now this was a
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  Speaker 1: curious property that Finn's thumb had, and this very thing. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: he was very much resembled by his great full Cohollan,
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  Speaker 1: as it was well known that the huge strength he
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  Speaker 1: possessed all lay in the middle finger of his right hand,
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  Speaker 1: and that if he happened, by any mischance to lose it,
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  Speaker 1: he was no more for all his bulk than a
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  Speaker 1: common man at length. The next day, Cohullan was seen
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  Speaker 1: coming across the valley, and Ona knew that it was
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  Speaker 1: time to commence operations. She immediately brought the cradle and
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  Speaker 1: made Finn to lie down in it and cover himself
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  Speaker 1: up with the clothes. You must pass for your own child,
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  Speaker 1: said she. So just lie there, snug and say nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but be guided by me. About two o'clock, as he
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  Speaker 1: had been expected, Cahullan came in. God save all here,
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  Speaker 1: said he is this where the great Finn mac cool lives.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed it is, honest, man replied onah, God save you kindly.
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  Speaker 1: Won't you be sitting Thank you, ma'am, says he sitting down.
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  Speaker 1: You're missus mc cool I suppose I am, she said,
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  Speaker 1: and I have no reason I hope to be ashamed
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  Speaker 1: of my husband. No, said the other. He has the
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  Speaker 1: name of being the strongest and bravest man in Ireland.
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  Speaker 1: But for all that, there's not a man that far
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  Speaker 1: from you that's very desirous of taking a shake with him.
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  Speaker 1: Is he at home? Why then, no, she replied, And
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  Speaker 1: if ever a man left his house in a fury,
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  Speaker 1: he did. It appears that some one told him of
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  Speaker 1: a big bastoon of a giant called Callhullen being down
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  Speaker 1: at the causeway to look for him, and so he
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  Speaker 1: set out there to try and see if he could
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  Speaker 1: catch him. Troth. I hope for the poor giant's sake
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  Speaker 1: he won't meet with him, for if he does, Finn
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  Speaker 1: will make paste of him. At once, well, said the other.
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  Speaker 1: I am Callhullan, and I I have been seeking him
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  Speaker 1: these twelve months, but he always kept clear of me.
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  Speaker 1: And I will never rest night or day till I
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  Speaker 1: lay my hands on him. At this Ona sat up
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  Speaker 1: a loud laugh of a great contempt by the way,
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  Speaker 1: and looked at him as if you were only a
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  Speaker 1: mere handful of a man. Did you ever see Finn,
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  Speaker 1: she said, changing her manner all at once. How could
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  Speaker 1: I said he he always took care to keep his distance,
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  Speaker 1: I thought so, she replied, I judged as much. And
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  Speaker 1: if you take my advice, you poor looking creature, you'll
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  Speaker 1: pray night and day that you may never see him,
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  Speaker 1: for I tell you it will be a black day
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  Speaker 1: for you when you do. But in the meantime, you
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  Speaker 1: perceive that the wind's on the door, and as Finn
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  Speaker 1: himself is from home, maybe you'd beat civil enough to
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  Speaker 1: turn the house, for it's always what Finn does when
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  Speaker 1: he's here. This was a startler, even to Koholb. But
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  Speaker 1: he got up, however, and after pulling the middle finger
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  Speaker 1: of his right hand until a crack three times, he
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  Speaker 1: went outside, and getting his arms about the house, turned
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  Speaker 1: it as she had wished. When Finn saw this, he
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  Speaker 1: felt the sweat of fear oozing out through every pore
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  Speaker 1: of his skin. But Ona, depending upon her woman's wit,
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  Speaker 1: felt not a whit daunted ah, Then she said, as
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  Speaker 1: you are so civil, maybe you'd do another obliging turn
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  Speaker 1: for us, as Fin's not here to do it himself.
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  Speaker 1: You see, after this long stretch of dry weather we've
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  Speaker 1: had we feel very badly off for want of water. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Finn says there's a fine spring well somewhere under the
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  Speaker 1: rocks behind the hill here below, and it was his
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  Speaker 1: intention to pull them asunder. But having heard of you,
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  Speaker 1: he left the place in such a fury that he
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  Speaker 1: never thought of it. Now, if you try to find it, Troth,
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  Speaker 1: I'd feel it a kindness. She then brought Kohollan down
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  Speaker 1: to see the place, which was then all but one
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  Speaker 1: solid rock, and after looking at it for some time,
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  Speaker 1: he cracked his right middle finger nine times, and, stooping down,
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  Speaker 1: tore a cleft about four hundred feet deep and a
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  Speaker 1: quarter of a mile in length, which has since been
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  Speaker 1: christened by the name of Lumps for Glen. You'll come
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  Speaker 1: in now, she said, and eat a bit of such
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  Speaker 1: humble fare as we can give you. Finn, even although
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  Speaker 1: he and you are enemies, would score not to treat
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  Speaker 1: you kindly in his own house, And indeed, if I
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it even in his absence, he would not
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  Speaker 1: be pleased with me. She accordingly brought him in, and,
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  Speaker 1: placing half a dozen of the cakes we spoke of
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  Speaker 1: before him, together with a can or two of butter,
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  Speaker 1: a side of boiled bacon and a stack of cabbage.
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  Speaker 1: She desired him to help himself, for this be it known,
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  Speaker 1: was long before the invention of potatoes. Kahullan put one
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  Speaker 1: of the cakes in his mouth to take a huge
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  Speaker 1: whack of it. When he made a thundering noise, something
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  Speaker 1: between a growl and a yell, blood and fury. He shouted,
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  Speaker 1: how is this? Here are two of my teeth out?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of bread is this you gave me? What's
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  Speaker 1: the matter? Said Ona coolly, matter shouted the other again?
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  Speaker 1: Why here are the two best teeth in my head? Gone? Why?
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  Speaker 1: Said she? That's Finn's bread, the only bread he ever
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  Speaker 1: eats when at home. But indeed I forgot to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that no he can eat it but himself and
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  Speaker 1: the child in the cradle there. I thought, however, that
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  Speaker 1: as you were reported to be a rather stout little
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  Speaker 1: fellow of your size, you might be able to manage it.
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  Speaker 1: And I did not wish to affront a man that
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  Speaker 1: thinks himself able to fight Finn. Here's another cake. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's not so hard as that. Cohullin at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: was not only hungry but ravenous, so he accordingly made
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  Speaker 1: a fresh set at the second cake, and immediately another
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  Speaker 1: yell was heard twice as loud as the first thunder
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  Speaker 1: and gibbets. He roared, take your bread out of this,
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  Speaker 1: or I will not have a tooth in my head.
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  Speaker 1: There's another pair of them gone well, honest man replied Ona.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not able to eat the bread, say so quietly,
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  Speaker 1: and don't be wakening the child in the cradle there
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  Speaker 1: there now he's awake upon me. Finn now gave a
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  Speaker 1: scurl that startled the giant as coming from such a
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  Speaker 1: youngster as he was supposed to be. Mother said he,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hungry, Get me something to eat. Oa went over,
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  Speaker 1: and putting into his hand a cake that had no
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  Speaker 1: griddle in it. Finn, his appetite in the meantime had
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  Speaker 1: been sharpened by seeing eating going forward, soon swallowed it.
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  Speaker 1: Collhullan was thunderstruck and secretly thanked his stars that he
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  Speaker 1: had the good fortune to miss meeting Finn, for, as
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  Speaker 1: he said to himself, I'd have no chance with a
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  Speaker 1: man who could eat such bread as that which even
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  Speaker 1: his son that's but in his cradle can munch before
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  Speaker 1: my eyes. I'd like to take a glimpse at the
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  Speaker 1: lad in the cradle, said he to Ona, for I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you that the infant who can manage that
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  Speaker 1: nutriment is no joke to look at or to feed
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  Speaker 1: of a scarce summer with all the veins in my heart,
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  Speaker 1: replied Ona, get up a shukla and show this decent
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  Speaker 1: little man something that won't be unworthy of your father,
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  Speaker 1: Finn mc cool. Finn, who was dressed for the occasion
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  Speaker 1: as much like a boy as possible, got up and
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  Speaker 1: bringing Cohullen out. Are you strong? Said he thunder and
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  Speaker 1: Owlan's exclaimed the other. What a voice and so small
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  Speaker 1: a chap? Are you strong? Said Finn again? Are you
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  Speaker 1: able to squeeze water out of that white stone? He asked,
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  Speaker 1: putting one into Kahullan's hand. The latter squeezed and squeezed
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  Speaker 1: the stone. But in vain Ah, you're a poor creature,
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  Speaker 1: said Finn, you a giant. Give me the stone here
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  Speaker 1: and I'll show what Finn's little sun can do, and
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  Speaker 1: you may then judge of what my daddy himself is.
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  Speaker 1: Finn then took the stone, and exchanging it for the Kurds,
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  Speaker 1: he squeezed the ladder until the way as clear as
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  Speaker 1: water oozed out in a little shower from his hand.
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  Speaker 1: I'll now go in, he said to my cradle, for
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  Speaker 1: I scorn to lose my time with any one that's
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  Speaker 1: not able to eat my daddy's bread or squeeze water
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  Speaker 1: out of a stone. But Dad, you had better be
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  Speaker 1: off out of this before he comes back, for if
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  Speaker 1: he catches you, it's in flummery. He'd have you in
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  Speaker 1: two minutes. Kahullan, seeing what he had seen, was of
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  Speaker 1: the same opinion himself. His knees knocked together with the
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  Speaker 1: terror of Finn's return, and he accordingly hastened to be
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  Speaker 1: at Oah farewell and to assure her that from that
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  Speaker 1: day out he never wished to hear of much less
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  Speaker 1: to see her husband. I admit fairly that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a match for him, said he strong as I am.
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  Speaker 1: Tell him I will avoid him as I would the plague,
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  Speaker 1: and that I will make myself scarce in this part
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  Speaker 1: of the country while I live. Finn, in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: had gone into the cradle, where he lay very quietly,
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  Speaker 1: his heart at his mouth with delight that Cohullan was
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  Speaker 1: about to take his departure without discovering the tricks that
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  Speaker 1: had been played off on him. It's well for you,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: said Ona, that he doesn't happen at be here, for
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: it's nothing but hawk's meat. He'd make of you. I
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: know that, said Kahullan, devil a thing he'd make of me.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: But before I go, will you let me feel what
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: kind of teeth Fin's lad has got that can eat
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: grittle bread like that with all pleasure in life? Said she.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Only as they're far back in his head, you must
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: put your finger a good way in Cohullan was surprised
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: to find such a powerful set of grinders in one
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: so young, But he was still much more so on finding,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: when he took his hand from Finn's mouth that he
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: had left the very finger upon which his whole strength
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: depended behind him. He gave one loud groan and fell
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: down at once with terror and weakness. This was all
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Finn wanted, who now knew that his most powerful and
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: bitterest enemy was at his mercy. He started out of
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: the cradle, and in a few minutes the great Kohulan
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: that was for such a length of time the terror
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: of him and all his followers lay a corpse before him.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Thus did Finn, through the wit and invention of Ona,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: his wife, succeed in overcoming his enemy by cunning, which
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: he never could have done by force. End of Section eighteen.