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" Now, couldn't ye folia the way yer father showed
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ye? Jist think. It's all dark, and there's nothin' that
ye know to confuse ye—no threes what has growed up
since thin. Thry an' remimber, an' ye' 11 have lashins
iv dhrink this night, an' half the goold whin we
find it."
" ' I can go I can show the shpot Come on. 5 He
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made a sudden bolt down into the river, which was
running unusually high. The current almost swept him
away ; but Murdock was beside him in a moment, cry-
ing out :
"
' G-o an ! the wather isn't deep ! don't be afeerd
I'm wid ye.' When I heard this I ran round and across
the bridge, and was waiting behind the hedge on the
road when they came up again. The two men went up
the hill straight for perhaps a hundred yards, I still
close to them ; then Moynahan stopped :
" ' Here's about the shpot me father tould me that
he seen the min whin the moon shone out. Thin they
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went an beyant,' and he pointed to the south. The
struggle through the stream had evidently sobered him
somewhat, for he spoke much more clearly.
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' Come on thin,' cried Murdock, and they moved off.
" Here's wheer they wint to, thin,' said Moynahan,
'
as he stopped on the south side of the hill—as I knew
it to be from the louder sound of the surf which was
borne in by the western gale. ' Here they wor, jist
about here, an' me father wint away to hide from thim
beside the big shtone at the Shleenanaher so that they