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Irish fairy tales (1920)

Stephens, James, 1882-1950, Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 279

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and again a dog whined in a whisper and snapped a littlesnap on the air, but except for that there was neither soundnor movement. It was a long fight. It was a hard and a tricky fight, andGoll won it by bravery and strategy and great good luck;for with one shrewd slice of his blade he carved two of… … ^iiii ENCHANTED CAVE OF CESH CORRAN 215 and that stroke was known afterwards as one of the threegreat sword-strokes of Ireland. The third hag, however,had managed to get behind GoU, and she leaped on to hisback with the bound of a panther, and hung here with theskilful, many-legged, tight-twisted…

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