aidFinnian. Continue your story, my beloved. Then, sudden as a rising wind, between one night anda morning, there came a sickness that bloated the stomachand purpled the skin, and on the seventh day all of the raceof Partholon were dead, save one man only. There always escapes one man, said Finnian… … IV THE STORY OF TUAN MAC CAIRILL 13 backwards through incredible ages to the beginning of theworld and the first days of Eirfe. And Finnian, with hisblood again running chill and his scalp crawling uneasily,stared backwards with him.
Fairy tales, Irish
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