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"The chapel of Knockimdowny was situated at the foot of a range of lofty mountains; a by-road went past the very door, which had under subjection a beautiful extent of cultivated country, diversificated by hill and dale, or rather by hill and hollow; for, as far as my own geographical knowledge goes, I have uniformly found them inseparable.
"One sunny Sabbath, the congregation of Knockimdowny were thus assimilated, amusing themselves in the manner I have just outlined; a series of country girls sat on a little green mount, called the Rabbit Bank, from the circumstance of its having been formerly an open burrow, though of late years it has been closed.
"Never fear, your Reverence," replied Ned "here goes and healths a-piece to begin with." "Every person in the parish knows the purty knoll that rises above the Routing Burn, some few miles from the renowned town of Knockimdowny, which, as all the world must allow, wants only houses and inhabitants to be as big a place as the great town of Dublin itself.
In this way they travelled at their ase, till they came within a few miles of the town of Knockimdowny, near which Jack's mother lived. "'Now, Jack, says she, 'I told you that I would make you rich.
He was a powerful bulliah battha * in his day and never met a man able to fight him, except big Mucldemurray, who stood before him the greater part of an hour and a half, in the fair of Knockimdowny, on the day that the first great fight took place twenty years afther the hard, frost between the O'Callaghans and the O'Hallaghans.
No man, as they say of great statesmen, is more fertile in expedients during a row; which, by the way, I take to be a good quality, at all events. "I remember the fair-day of Knockimdowny well; it has kept me from griddle-bread and tough nutriment ever since. Hard fortune to Jack Roe O'Hallaghan! No man had better teeth than I had till I met with him that day.
Fair play, Sampson! by the same a-token, here's to jog your memory that it's the Fair day of Knockimdowny! Irish Fair play, you whale! "'Oh! oh! shouted the miller. "'Oh! oh! is it? "'Murther! murther! murther! shouted the miller. 'Is there no help? Did ye ever hear of the tailor on horseback, Sampson? eh? Did you ever expect to see a tailor on horseback of yourself, you baste?
"It is the great battle, however, which I am after going to describe: that in which we and the O'Hallaghans had contrived, one way or other, to have the parish divided one-half for them, and the other for us; and, upon my credibility, it is no exaggeration to declare that the whole parish, though ten miles by six, assembled itself in the town of Knockimdowny, upon this interesting occasion.
"'In good health at the present time, thank God and you; how is yourself, Barney? "About five o'clock on a May evening, in the fair of Knockimdowny, was the ice thus broken, with all possible civility, by Ned and Barney.
They began where you enter the north side of Knockimdowny, and fought successively up to the other end, then back again to the spot where they commenced, and afterwards up to the middle of the town, right opposite to the market-place, where my grandfather, by the same a-token, lost a grinder; but he soon took satisfaction for that, by giving Mucldemurray a tip above the eye with the end of an oak stick, dacently loaded with lead, which made the poor man feel very quare entirely, for the few days that he survived it.
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