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'Well,' said
he, 'to show you how little I care about her, and that I set her at
defiance, I'll toss every atom of her beggarly furniture out of the
door;' and so he did--but by dad I thought he done it in a jokin' way,
as much as to say, I can take the liberty where another can't. I knew,
becoorse, he was wrong; but that makes no maxim--I'll go on wid my
story. On our way home we came to the green fields that lie on this side
of the haunted house; a portion of it, on a risin' ground, is covered
with furz. Now listen--when we came to it he stood; 'Barney,' says he,
'there's a hare here; give me the dogs, Sambo and Snail; they'll have
sich a hunt as they never had yet, and never will have agin.'
"He then closed his eyes, raised his left foot, and dhrew it back
three times in the divil's name, pronounced some words that I couldn't
understand, and then said to me, 'Now, Barney, go down to that withered
furze, and as you go, always keep your left foot foremost; cough three
times, then kick the furze with your left foot, and maybe you'll see an
old friend o' yours.


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