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BRITISH TRADITION'S.
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catches deer by speed. Clarsneachd Mhaith, who
hears the grass grow. ToiN Chruaidh, who is found
clearing a field of stones by sitting on them. Cuimse
DlREACH, the marksman who is found with a gun at his
eye aiming at a bird in Eirinn ; and Bolagam Mor
Great Gulp, who is found swilling a lake, and spouting
And he laid his head on her lap, and she div».-ol his hair.
it out again. They all join " the widow's son," and
sail in a ship which could go over mountain or sea,
Muir na Monadh, which is like Arthur's ship, and they
go to win a king's daughter, and do win her by feats.
Nimble shanks runs a race with " nighean dubh na
luideag," the black girl of the clouts, to try who could
first take a bottle of water from the green well that was
about the heaps of the deep. " Tobar uaine thu 'n
iomal torra domhain," the keen eared man, hears all the
plans, the swift man is enticed into falling asleep, and