You have heard of the Black Spectre--the _Shan-dhinne-dhuv ?_" "I have," replied the other; "proceed." "Well, sir, as I said, the truth came out at last; in the coorse of a short time she was watched at night, and seen goin' to the haunted house, where the Spectre lives." "Did she walk there, or fly upon her broomstick ?" asked Woodward, gravely.
"I believe she walked, sir," replied Barney; "but afther that every eye was upon her, and many a time she was seen goin' to the haunted house when she thought no eye was upon her.

Afther this, of coorse, she disappeared, for, to tell you the truth, the town became too hot for her; and, indeed, this is not surprisin'.

Two or three of the neighborin' women miscarried, and several people lost their cattle after she came to the town; and to make a long story short, just as it was made up to throw her into the parson's pond, she disappeared, as I said, exactly as if she had known their intention: and becoorse she did." "And did they ever find out where she went to ?" "Have patience, sir, for patience, they say, is a virtue.

About a month afterwards some of the townspeople came up to the mountains here, to hunt hares, just as we did.

Several of them before this had seen a white hare near the very spot we're sittin' in, but sorra dog of any description, either hound, greyhound, or lurcher could blow wind in her tail; even a pair of the Irish bloodhounds were brought, and when they came on her, she flew from them like the wind, I and laughed at them, becoorse.