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"It is The Salmon," said Finegas with a great sigh. Fionn leaped for delight. "I am glad for you, master," he cried. "Indeed I am glad for you." "And I am glad, my dear soul," the master rejoined. But, having said it, he bent his brow to his hand and for a long time he was silent and gathered into himself. "What should be done now?" Fionn demanded, as he stared on the beautiful fish.
But Diarmid plucked one of the berries, and aimed it at the man which should be moved, and Ossian moved it, and turned the game against Fionn. And so he did a second time, and a third, when Ossian was in straits, and he won the game and the Fenians sent up a great shout.
"By my hand," said Fionn in mortal distress, "I marvel who that man can be!" "He is known to you," she murmured. "I lived thus in the peace of Faery, hearing often of my mortal champion, for the rumour of his great deeds had gone through the Shi', until a day came when the Black Magician of the Men of God put his eye on me, and, after that day, in whatever direction I looked I saw his eye."
All men are masters when one is young, and Fionn would have found knowledge here also. He would have seen Fiacuil's great spear that had thirty rivets of Arabian gold in its socket, and that had to be kept wrapped up and tied down so that it would not kill people out of mere spitefulness.
"Produce this runner, and we shall discover if he keeps as great heart in his feet as he has made you think." "He is not with us," Cona'n lamented. "These notable warriors are never with us when the call is made," said the grim stranger. "By my hand," cried Fionn, "he shall be here in no great time, for I will fetch him myself." "Be it so," said Cael.
Whatever was thought, what the king said was as direct in utterance as it was in observation. "If Uail the son of Baiscne has a son," said the king, "you would surely be that son." We are not told if the King of Finntraigh said anything more, but we know that Fionn left his service soon afterwards.
"Fionn sends you this hound to take care of until he comes for her," said the messenger. "I wonder at that," Fergus growled, "for Fionn knows well that there is not a man in the world has less of a liking for dogs than I have." "However that may be, master, I have given Fionn's message, and here at my heel is the dog. Do you take her or refuse her?"
'I marvel not at your winning, O Ossian, seeing that Oscar is doing his best for you, and that the skilled knowledge of Dearing, and the prompting of Diarmid, are all with you. 'Now your eyes must be blinded, O Fionn, to think that Diarmid would stay in that tree when you are beneath him. 'Which of us has the truth on his side, O Diarmid? said Fionn, looking up.
Fionn looked up at the sky and found that it was still there. He stared to one side and saw the trees of Kyle Conor waving in the distance. He bent his ear to the wind and heard the shouting of hunters, the yapping of dogs, and the clear whistles, which told how the hunt was going. "Well!" said Fionn to himself. "By my hand!" quoth Cona'n to his own soul.
And soon a dire defeat will come upon the Fenians, and few children will be left to them to carry on the race. It is not for you that I grieve, O Fionn, but for Ossian and for Oscar, and for the rest of my faithful comrades. And you shall lack me sorely yet, O Fionn. 'I am near of kin to you, O Fionn, said Oscar, 'but you shall not do Diarmid this wrong.
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