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On the morrow Diarmid and Oscar rose, and put on their armour and went their way to the place of combat, where they bound the rims of their shields together, so that they might not be parted in the fight. Next they proclaimed battle against Fionn, and the Scots said they would land and fight them first.
For there never came on you battle or strait, but I would plunge into it for your sake, and for that of the Fenians. Therefore I swear, O Fionn, that thou shalt not get me for nothing. 'Diarmid speaks truth, said Oscar. 'Grant him, I pray you, mercy and forgiveness. 'I will not, answered Fionn, 'till he has paid for every slight put upon me.
'It is the easier for Fionn to follow our track, said Diarmid at last, 'now we have the horses.
'Force me not to break faith with the giant, answered Diarmid, 'for he would not give them me more readily for that. 'Loose our bonds, said the children of Moirna, 'and we will go with you, and give ourselves for your sake. 'Not so, answered Diarmid, 'for the sight of him might kill you. 'Then let us go to watch you fight, before you cut off our heads. And Diarmid did so.
When evening came they found a cave, where Muadan spread out soft rushes and birch twigs for Diarmid and Grania to lie on, and as soon as they were asleep he stole into the next wood, and broke a long straight rod from a tree, and put a hair line and a hook upon it, and a holly berry on the rod, and fished in the stream. In three casts he had taken three fish.
The early years of the nineteenth century looked on no more characteristic farmhouse than that where dwelt Diarmid Garland and his brood, on the bank above the swift-running water-race which turned the corn-mill with such deftness that people came from as far as Stranryan to admire.
Why, of course, he would stand by his bargain! What else was he for he, Diarmid Garland's second son the head of the Bands, the famous defier of the press and the Preventives? Pshaw! What did all that mean to him now apples of Sodom in the mouth, an exceeding bitter fruit! What a fool he was with his airs! Would he ever have such a chance again, and he to dream of complaining!
Besides, she could hear what was hidden and unheard at the stile on which Diarmid stood, the rock-rock of the short, steady navy stroke, which was pulling the landing-party from His Majesty's ship Britomart nearer and nearer to the Bothy of Blairmore. Then she passed quite out of sight.
When Angus and Grania had left him, Diarmid girded his arms upon him, and standing at one of the seven wattled doors, asked who stood behind. 'No foe to you, answered a voice, 'but Ossian, the son of Fionn, and Oscar, the son of Ossian, and others who are your friends. Come out, and none will do you hurt.
At that Fionn and his Fenians departed, and wandered far before they could hear news of Diarmid. On the road that led to the county of Galway, Fionn saw fifty stout warriors coming towards him.
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