62 8. •* There is no place in which he would hear of a game of cards being played, even though it (fé) were seven miles from him, but he would go there," Pronouns referring to place are usually masculine. 3. " Very late in the night." 4. " That he would go as a fourth man under it." 5. " With little beads of perspiration on her (forehead)." 6. "He slapped the palm of her hand." 7. "You are in safe charge, on the path of safety, in safe con- dition." é -oo cu|i A lÁirii An -olijeAT), to place him in charge of the law. 8. " My relatives have had me (ill) in bed for the last three montbg." 9. See note 3, p. 56. 10. " That her brother had done her a great kindness." 11. " To tell the master of the house that a man had taken the horse from the field." xif An bpÁijic would be incorrect. xp would imply that the horse had been buried in the field, and that he was taken out of it. 12. " That it was a great piece of villainy for the man who had taken it." 13. See note 24, p. 57. 14. " The poor man was tired and afflicted." 15. " "When he turned round to look about the house. 16. This clause is an interjected explanation, common in Irish. 17. From the back of the house where she was. 18. Pronounced short c«. So, too, if rt>, ip me. The reason is that the emphasis is on the affirmation or denial. When the pronoun is emphasised the whole sentence is given as in the following words: Hi cufA mo injeAn. 19. '* For it had a human shape." A wooden image had been put in her place. 20. *• He never went to any card (-playing) from that out." puisin CÚI A.^^ iiK cx vus ui tiA 5c ac* 1. •• The kitten of the back of the fireplace, and the King of the Cats." This is a form of the story " Puss in Boots." A portion of it has been omitted. 2. " He had five or six children." 3. " To bring him to the shoe-maker, so that he might take his measure." The cat is spoken of as " he " in Irish.
