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. Well, sir, the whole country was in a terrible state of alarm
about the white hare, for every one knew, of coorse, that she was a
witch; and as the cows began, here and there, to fail in their milk,
why, it was a clear case that she sucked them in ordher to supply some
imp of the devil that sucked herself.
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