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HOW THE FAIRIES CAME TO IRELAND

an’ turned in the saddle. Not a sowl was in sight; there was only the lonely road and the lonesome hillside; the last glimmer of the fairy-fire was gone, and a curtain of soft blackness had fallen betwixt him an’ where the blaze had been.

“I bid you good night, Brian Connors!” the priest cried. From somewhere out of the darkness a woice called back to him, “Good night, your Riverence!”

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