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100 THE LEGEND OF TORC WATERFALL.
it was I that killed your sheep, and I couldn’t help
it j but if you’ll follow me, and do my bidding, I’ll
make a rich man of you: you needn’t be afraid, I’m
not going to harm you.’
“Well, after no small amount of consideration,
Larry said he would; and the wolf brought him up
the glen here to the big black rock, jist where the
waterfall is now, but there was none at all then; and
he opens a door in the rock, and takes Larry into a
beautiful room, where he was changed all at once
from a wolf into a beautiful young man. After
giving Larry plenty of beef and mutton and whisky-
punch, he took and showed him a room full of gould,
and gave him a big bag full of it. And wasn’t Larry’s
heart glad when he got the gould, and gladder still
when he was tould to come for more as often as he
pleased 1 So when he was done, Larry wint away, and
as he was going the young man says to him,—
“ ‘ Don’t let mortal know what you’ve seen this
night; and if you keep the sacret for seven years, yer
a made man, and everything ’ill prosper with you;
but if ye whisper a word to any one, worse luck to
ye,—it’s a ruined man you’ll be, and I’ll be destroyed
entirely.’
“ ‘ Trust me,’ says Larry, buttoning up the bag of
gould, and setting out home as fast as his two legs
would carry him.
“ Well, you may be sure there was a great talk en¬
tirely among the neighbours, how Larry had come by
so much money, without any raison for it, all at once;
and his wife, Nell Flanigan, torminted the sowl
a’most out of his body axing him to tell her where
he got it. But it was no use at all; he wouldn’t tell