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38. " And he thought he had not run half th<3 way." T fear itoccA is almost as bad as cAjAijce. Better : nÁ At) 'é acc VA] elf leAc riA ftijeAX) x)o cu|i "oe.
39. " That is what put him astray most of all."
40. "Accordingly."
41. "He cast out the lead.'*
42. "Her end was that she was there for him, fallen asunder like an old crib."
43. "Even that, they (the coastguards) did not allow them to take with them beyond the top of the cliff."
44. " On their own heaps (of coal), waiting for it to be auctioned."
45. "It was the vessel and all on the strand that belonged to her that was first put up for sale."
46. Why they should have been told to have sense, and take home the coal, is not quite clear.
47. " It was very difficult to take him out of the place where he was found, since the first two who found him left him where he was, and did nob even take him out of the sea, until three others came, and they took him westwards to the ScÁicín," i.e., to a cliff up which there is a path. iriAji •oo bi fé, " as he was," not " where he was."
48. " It was very hard to get him up the steps that are in that place, and one of them [lit., it is the way that one of them] had to take him in his arms and push him upwards towards the other two." The steps referred to are mere foot-holds on the face of the cliff.
49. " To a place where a horse could come to them."
50. " They were both put into the same coffin," i.e., to Jake them home. Cu does not mean "bury" here.
51. " However."
52. " I don't know in the world how he climbed up there, a place where one would imagine a cat could not walk."
53. "Pray for them, indeed!" In a bantering tone, as though the suggestion were absurd. So all similar expressions — "You ought to buy a horse." " Buy one, indeed ! " ATDeiftim-fe ceAtinAc leAc. Literally the meaning is " I say buying to you."
f?einnieónx.
1. " He was much given to card-playing." nil Aon ceojtA leAC
has often the meaning, " you cannot be surpassed."
