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"WAKES.”
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on no account, and his wife all but died out of curi¬
osity. Oh! it’s the women that bates all for curiosity!
At last she resolved to follow him one night, and saw
him go into the rock; and when he came out again, she
set on him and taezed and upbraided him and vexed
him to that extint, that he was forced to tell her all
about it. But when he finished, the wolf appeared
all at once on the top of the rock, and roared in a
voice like thunder,—
“ ‘ You’re done for now, Larry Hayes!’ and imme¬
diately he was whipt up in a flame of blue fire to the
top of Mangerton, where he plunged into the lake;
and he was no sooner in than the water burst a hole
in the side of the bowl, and, tearing down the moun¬
tain like mad, covered the rock with the foaming fall.
Boor Larry and his wife had hard work of it to get
out of the way of the water, and in a short time he
became poorer than he was at first, and at last had to
travel through the country with a bag on his back;
and from that day to this no one has got at the cave
with the gould in it.”
“ WAKES."
The funeral ceremonies of the Irish are very re¬
markable and interesting. Most people have heard
of the “ wake,” but there may be some who do not
know much about its details; for their benefit we
subjoin the following account.
When the last breath is expired the wake begins.
The body is laid out and the priest says mass for the
repose of the soul that has just left its tenement of