I have seen many a hard run, but the likes o' that I never seen.

If they turned her wanst they turned her more than a dozen times; but where do you think she escaped to at last ?" "The Lord knows, Barney; where ?" "As heaven's above us, into the haunted house; and if the dogs were to get a thousand guineas apiece, one of them couldn't be forced into it afther her.

They ran with their noses on her very scut, widin five or six yards of it, and when she went into it they stood stock still, and neither man nor sword could get them to go farther.

But what do you think Masther Harry said afther he had seen all this?
'Barney,' said he, 'I'm detarmined to spend a night in the haunted house before I'm much ouldher; only keep that to yourself, and don't make a blowing horn of it through the parish.' And what he said to me, I say to you--never breathe a syllable of it to man or mortal.

It'll be worse for you if you do.