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"Well, I did so, and troth I thought there was somethin' over me when I
did it; but--what 'ud you think?--out starts a white hare, and off went
Sambo and Snail after her, full butt. 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.
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