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And hasn't he made you as much trouble as any fir darrig could do?" "I was a lepracaun, too, once, Your Majesty," Naggeneen said. "A lepracaun, were you? What did you do then? And when was it and how did it happen that a lazy lump like you was ever a lepracaun?"
And when panting and sweating he had swept them all away with a wedge of cheese he seemed to hear Whitaker's voice calling him a failure. Kenny felt that he had been visited by Far Darrig, the Gaelic bringer of bad dreams. Spring came early and with the first marsh hawk Brian was on the road, his eager youth crying out to the spring's hope and laughter. Everywhere he caught the thrill of it.
If he'd been a fir darrig, that's always playing tricks and making trouble everywhere, why, then, of course but he was only a poor cluricaun " "Yes," the King of All Ireland interrupted, "only a poor cluricaun, that does nothing but rob gentlemen's wine cellars and keep himself so drunk that he's of no use when he's wanted for any good.
You should see what sport we have when the fox takes to the Corrig Dearg up among the rocks and little Rosie upon Fir Darrig, with her hair upon the wind, and her colour like the morning cloud, glancing in and out among the rocks like the fairy of the glen.
'We've got no horses that is, except my father's mare, and the colt, and Fir Darrig the swish-tailed pony and the blind donkey that brings in the turf. So we younger ones mostly go hunting on foot; and after all I believe that's the best sport. Bryan always comes in before any of the horses, and we all think it a shame if we don't!
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