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GULEESH NA GUSS DHU. ^ 1 1 5
" My horse, my bridle, and saddle !" says Guleesh ;
and on the moment the horse was standing ready
caparisoned before him, " Now, jump up, Guleesh,"
said the little man, " and put the lady behind you,
and we will be going; the morning is not far off from us
now,"
Guleesh raised her up on the horse's back, and leaped
up himself before her, and, " Rise horse," said he ; and
his horse, and the other horses with him, went in a full
race until they came to the sea.
" Highover, cap !" said every man of them.
" Highover, cap!" said Guleesh; and on the moment
the horse rose under him, and cut a leap in the clouds,
and came down in Erin.
They did not stop there, but went of a race to the
place where was Guleesh's house and the rath. And
when they came as far as that, Guleesh turned and caught
the young girl in his two arms, and leaped off the horse.
" I call and cross you to myself, in the name of God !"
said he ; and on the spot, before the word was'out of his
mouth, the horse fell down, and what was in it but the
beam of a plough, of which they had made^a^horse ; and
every other horse they had, it was that way they made
it. Some of them were riding on an old besom, and
some on a broken stick, and more on a bohalau-n (rag
weed), or a hemlock-stalk.
The good people called out together when they heard
what Guleesh said :
" Oh, Guleesh, you clown, you thief, that no good
may happen you, why did you play that trick on us ? "
But they had no power at all to carry off the girl, after
Guleesh had consecrated her to himself.
" Oh, Guleesh, isn't that a nice turn you did us, and
we so kind to you?. What good have we now out of