Blair Collection > Gaelic journal > Volume 4, number 33

THE GAELIC JOURNAL.
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■h-innj-eA-o -ÓAm 50 'o-cuj An yc^^-xyc leij-
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mij'e, Aju]' me irétn beó ? TIaji céió ]-é-
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Ay At! i^ajahc, aj ceiLjion a bpojA, a |-coc-
Aiwe, Aju]' A téine cinge ; aj yÁ-ò, aj yo
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"O'lnicij An -['AjAiic Ann ]-o aì\\ nóy a
TÌiAigifci)!, jAn b]\ói5, jAn buACAip, -o'Á Àyuy
yéìfì t)o bi' A vó no a cpí no milcib ua-ò ;
Ag innpn X)'Á JDobAb 50 mime Ay éijiij ■òo,
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(Le beic leAncA.)
LITERAL TRANSLATION OF
O'CLEARY'S NARRATIVE.
He took it and made a hole in the middle,
and put his head through the hole in such
a manner that half the blanket was before
him, and the other half behind him. When
Edmond saw himself in this plight — " Yes,''
said he to himself. " Uru ! is it possible
you are Edmond ? By Sunday I if it be
you, you are not [the] Edmond O'Cleary
we had long ago ; you are more like Gil-
bert O'Gibbon than Edmond O'Cleary."
He was constantly going on the road
thus, until a wide-mouthed, big-bellied man
met him, passing by the side of a church-
yard, and when the man saw him, he stood
in his track (step) and said: "I conjure
thee, in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost, to tell me what
you want me to do for you." Edmond said,
answering him : " There is no need that you
conjure me, for I am conjured and troubled
enough already."
" O master, dear," said a boy who was
with the big man, " we are done for (Ŵ.
found bare); what is that, or what did it
say ?"
" Whisht" says the big man, " drag out
your beads and pray to God, for it is a
ghost, and when I conjured him in Latin,
he answered in Latin, and said that he was
conjured and troubled enough already, and
that it was not necessary to conjure him
again at all {Itt. put spells on him). Rightly
is it said that a ghost can speak {/ii. has)
every sort of language." "Pater, pater,
master, avonrneen; say pater, and talk to
him in Irish.''
When Edmond knew the straits in which
they were, he began bellowing like a bull,
for he knew the big man was a priest = he
bleated like a goat and barked like a dog.
The priest threw himself on his knees and
trembled, and said, " I conjure you in the
name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
to tell me what is your trouble, or is it
possible for me to give you relief; and if
it be possible I shall certainly give it with-
out refusal or contention."
"Well, then," said the spirit, "it is possi-
ble, and I shall make you understand the
cause of my trouble. When I was alive as
you are, I fell into a very heavy sickness,
and the physicians passed judgment of
death upon me, so that all said I could
never recover again. The priest was sent
for, and I got the rites of the Church.
Then I thought it right to bequeath some-
thing to the good clergyman who had go*:
such trouble on my account. I had of
worldly wealth nothing worth ofTering to
to him but a dress (?) shirt that I had never
put on my back, a pair of shoes and stock-
ings that had never gone on the foot of
man. I bequeathed these to him should I