The sun was fast rising as he finished his work, and the first thing he did was to return to the road, and look out for a house to rest himself in. He found an inn at last; and lay down upon a bed there, and slept till night. Then he rose up and ate a little, and fell asleep again till morning. When he awoke in the morning he hired a horse and rode home. He was more than twenty-six miles from home where he was, and he had come all that way with the dead body on his back in one night.
All the people at his own home thought that he must have left the country, and they rejoiced greatly when they saw him come back. Everyone began asking him where he had been, but he would not tell anyone except his father.
He was a changed man from that day. He never drank too much; he never lost his money over cards; and especially he would not take the world and be out late by himself of a dark night.
He was not a fortnight at home until he married Mary, the girl he had been in love with, and it's at their wedding the sport was, and it's he was the happy man from that day forward, and it's all I wish that we may be as happy as he was.
GLOSSARY.--_Rann_, a stanza; _kailee_ (_céilidhe_), a visit in the evening; _wirra_ (_a mhuire_), "Oh, Mary!" an exclamation like the French _dame_; _rib_, a single hair (in Irish, _ribe_); _a lock_ (_glac_), a bundle or wisp, or a little share of anything; _kippeen_ (_cipín_), a rod or twig; _boreen_ (_bóithrín_), a lane; _bodach_, a clown; _soorawn_ (_suarán_), vertigo. _Avic_ (_a Mhic_)=my son, or rather, Oh, son. Mic is the vocative of Mac.
THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS: OR THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN
A friend of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me one day, as if between jest and earnest--"Fancy! since we last met, I have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London."
"Well, I can't answer these questions--all I know is this--six weeks ago I and my wife were in search of a furnished apartment. Passing a quiet street, we saw on the window of one of the houses a bill, 'Apartments Furnished.' The situation suited us: we entered the house--liked the rooms--engaged them by the week--and left them the third day. No power on earth could have reconciled my wife to stay longer, and I don't wonder at it."