Folk Tales of Breffny

t man in all the countryside. But it was little milk he was getting from his nine lovely cows, and no butter from the milk. They'd be churning in that house for three

for when herself ran the strainer in

erlooking his own cattle he was by walking through them and he fasting at the dawn of day. The notion didn't please him too well, indeed he was horrid vexed at her for saying the like, but he went no more among th

r, and it happened one day that they came on a hare was running with the nine cows through the f

heard my old grandfather tell that hares be's enchanted people; l

ue hound, and the hunt went over the ditches an

e gosoon," says the man. And indeed he was a big, hearty farmer was

front of the tongue hound, and she made a lep for to get into the cabin by a hole on the wall convenient to the door. The hound got a

ing, and the hare contrived for to slip from between his teeth. One spring brought her in on the hole i

into the opening the way the hare had no chance to get out where she was after entering, then he walked round the house for to see was there any means o

ng an entry, but a lock and a chain were upon it. The farmer took up a ston

y if I be to repair the destruction I make-sure what is the

as neither sight nor sign of a hare to be found,

ster's feet, it [87]was easy knowing the beast was in odious dread.

rely there's not a many in the world do be hunting hares thro

own place the wife r

ul milk the cows are after giving this d

reat plenty of milk and a right yield o