the earth had swallowed her up. And I followed her, and looked for her, but I never could see her again from that day to this, never again.'
The county Galway people use the word 'clean' in its old sense of fresh and comely.
Michael Robartes bids his Beloved be at Peace.
November, the old beginning of winter, or of the victory of the Fomor, or powers of death, and dismay, and cold, and darkness, is associated by the Irish people with the horse-shaped Pucas, who are now mischievous spirits, but were once Fomorian divinities. I think that they may have some connection with the horses of Mannannan, who reigned over the country of the dead, where the Fomorian Tethra reigned also; and the horses of Man-
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