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THE BATTLE OF VENTRY.

thou." "Small is the profit to me," said Labrán, "as I shall not be able to deliver them in the hour of fight to-morrow." On the next morning they saw Aed mac Aebinn coming towards them, viz. a good .... of the people of Tadg mac Núadat, and this man was as quick as the March-wind till the midst of each day, and after that nobody else was quicker than he. "Thou hast come at the right moment," said Tadg, and he told him the object of the weapons.—Here the story is taken up in the Rawl. copy.

In conclusion, I have to thank all those who have kindly given me assistance in the translation as well as in the glossary. Special thanks are due to the Rev. Charles Plummer, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, who, most kindly complying with my request, has once more compared the whole text in proof with the MS.

K. M.

Liverpool: May 1885.