text:  "_Dhieu a's Marudha a's Phaidhrig a's_"[23]----said a voice following up the lustration with a blessing cut short however by the Stranger's clutching the throat of the pious intruder and dragging forward from beneath the trees which had hitherto overshadowed their way a little Bundle of some dark coloured cloth surmounted by a straw bonnet so battered in its outlines that to fix it there it must have been flattened down with no ordinary emphasis and from beneath which guttural shrieks now arose whose extent of volume was out of all proportion to the diminutive object from which they proceeded