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BRAN. 15
down on the ground, he said : " That's the position he
had when he made the hole for me, that I couldn't come
up out of, when I went down into it. I'll go no nearer
to him."
" No ! " said the fox, " but that's the way he was
when he was making the thing for me, and I'll go no
nearer to him."
" No ! " says the lion, " but that's the very way he had,
when he was making the plough that I was caught in.
I'll go no nearer to him."
They all went from him then and returned. The
tailor and his wife came home to Galway. They gave
me paper stockings and shoes of thick milk. I lost
them since. They got the ford, and I the flash ; * they
were drowned, and I came safe.
BRAN.
Finn had a splendid hound. That was Bran. You
have heard talk of Bran. This is the colour was on him :
Yellow feet that were on Bran,
Two black sides, and belly white,
Grayish back of hunting colour,
Two ears, red, round, small, and bright.
Bran would overtake the wild-geese, she was that swift,
* Flash, in Irish, lochdn, i.e., little lake, or pool of water. Most story-
tellers say, not, "I got the lochán," but the '■'' clochán," 01 stepping-stones.