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But no two among the whole set were more puzzled by this than my uncle and the fiddler I think I see my uncle this minute with his knees sticking into the horse's shoulders, and his two hands upon his neck, keeping himself back, with a cruiht* upon him, and the fiddler with his heels away, towards the horse's tail, and he stretched back against my uncle, for all the world like two bricks laid against one another, and one of them falling.
* The hump, which constitutes a round-shouldered man. Cruiht is the Irish for harp, and the simile is taken from the projection between the shoulders of the harper which was caused by carrying that instrument. "When we got to the priest's house, there was a hearty welcome for us all.
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