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252 THE snake's pass.
as though she did not know me. I conld see in the
moonlight the happy smile on her face as she turned
towards me.
" Yes, I see him ! " she answered.
"Well, Miss Norah, the fairies got him on the top
iv Knocknacar, and ivir since he's been wandherin' round
lukin' fur wan iv thim. I thried to timpt him away be
tellin' him iv nice girruls iv these parts—real girruls, not
fairies. But he's that obstinate he wouldn't luk at wan
iv thim—no, nor listen to me, ayther."
" Indeed ! " she said, her eyes dancing with fun.
" An', Miss Norah, dear, what kind iv a girrul d'ye
"
think he wanted to find ?
M
" I don't know, Andy—what kind ?
"Oh, begor ! but it's meself can tell ye ! Shure, it's
a long, yalla, dark girrul, shtreaky—like—like he knows
what—not quite a faymale nagur, wid a rid petticoat,
an' a quare kind iv an eye !
"Oh, Andy ! " was all she said, as she turned to me
smiling.
" Get along, you villain ! " said I, and I shook my
fist at him in fun; and then I took Norah aside, and
told her what the "quare kind iv an eye" was that I
had sought—and found.
Then we two said "Good-night" in peace, whilst the
We took —
others in front went through the gate.
afterwards — a formal and perfectly decorous farewell,
only shaking hands all round, before Dick and I mounted
the car. Andy started off at a gallop, and his " Git