All the people at his own home thought that he must have left the
country, and they rejoiced greatly when they saw him come back. Everyone
began asking him where he had been, but he would not tell anyone except
his father.

He was a changed man from that day. He never drank too much; he never
lost his money over cards; and especially he would not take the world
and be out late by himself of a dark night.

He was not a fortnight at home until he married Mary, the girl he had
been in love with, and it's at their wedding the sport was, and it's he
was the happy man from that day forward, and it's all I wish that we may
be as happy as he was.

* * * * *

GLOSSARY.--_Rann_, a stanza; _kailee_ (_céilidhe_), a visit in
the evening; _wirra_ (_a mhuire_), "Oh, Mary!" an exclamation like the
French _dame_; _rib_, a single hair (in Irish, _ribe_); _a lock_
(_glac_), a bundle or wisp, or a little share of anything; _kippeen_
(_cipín_), a rod or twig; _boreen_ (_bóithrín_), a lane; _bodach_, a
clown; _soorawn_ (_suarán_), vertigo. _Avic_ (_a Mhic_)=my son, or
rather, Oh, son. Mic is the vocative of Mac.




VI

THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS: OR THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN