Bandy, if he hadn't done the deed for himself the hangman would have
done it for him. He was said, I think, to have been connected with some
of the outlaws, and to have been a bad boy altogether. I think it is now
near fifty years ago since he hanged himself."

"'Tis said, sir, that this account comes from one of his own relations;
but there's another account, sir, of the _Shan-dhinne-dhuv_ that I don't
believe a word of."

"Another--what is that, Bandy?"

"O, bedad, sir," replied Bandy, "it's more than I could venture to tell
you here."

"Come, come--out with it."

Mrs. Lindsay went over with an inflamed face, and having ordered him
to go about his business, slapped down the window with great violence,
giving poor Bandy a look of wrath and intimidation that sealed his
lips upon the subject of the other tradition he alluded to. He was,
consequently, glad to escape from the threatening storm which he
saw brewing in her countenance, and, consequently, made a very hasty
retreat. Barney, who met him in the yard returning to fetch his pack
from the kitchen, noticed his perturbation, and asked him what was the
matter.

"May the Lord protect me from that woman's eye!" replied the pedler, "if
you'd 'a' seen the look she gave me when she thought I was goin' to tell
them the true story of the Shan-dhinne-dhuv."