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At least when Paddy grew up, he slew the child-eating giant, Poverty, who lived in Donegal. Paddy began to fight poverty when he could scarcely toddle. With his father, whose back was laden with a great rush basket, he used to pad in his bare feet down the mountainside to the Dungloe harbor down where the hills give the ocean a black embrace.
I had travelled hitherto through a dull district, and in the track of nothing more notable than the child-eating beast of Gevaudan, the Napoleon Bonaparte of wolves. But now I was to go down into the scene of a romantic chapter or, better, a romantic footnote in the history of the world. What was left of all this bygone dust and heroism?
Le Heup was so overcome with sorrow and so filled with indignation that he then and there determined to get together a few trapper friends of his and at once start by canoe for the scene of the tragedy, only a few miles away; there to condole with the poor father, trail the huge brute and wreak vengeance upon the child-eating monster.
I had travelled hitherto through a dull district, and in the track of nothing more notable than the child-eating Beast of Gévaudan, the Napoléon Bonaparte of wolves. But now I was to go down into the scene of a romantic chapter or, better, a romantic footnote in the history of the world. What was left of all this bygone dust and heroism?
And as the man is nobler than the ox, I shall some day let my enemy eat the ox; and then I will slay and eat him. ADAM. Monster! You hear this, Eve? EVE. So that is what comes of turning your face to the clean clear heavens! Man-eating! Child-eating! For that is what it would come to, just as it came to lambs and kids when Abel began with sheep and goats. You are a poor silly creature after all.
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