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I don't know who you are, nor where you live; how then can I ever find out your name? 'You never saw me before, sure enough, said the old woman, 'an' I tell you that you never will see me again but once; an' yet if you have not my name for me at the close of the kemp, you'll lose all, an' that will leave you a sore heart, for well I know you love Shaun Buie.
"Very well, then, Mogue," replied his companion, "so be it; you are, as I said, my guide for the day." "But do you know, sir, why he was called Shaun Bernha?" "No, I can't say I do." "It was odd enough, to be sure. Howandever, may I be happy but they say it's true!
Perhaps he was not the only one who knew this, for as Lame Art rowed out with his cousin, the latter nodded back at the tower. "What think you of this ally, Art Bocagh? Could he be truly the Earl's grandson?" "I know not," grunted the other. "But I do not care whether he be Brian Buidh or Brian O'Neill or Brian the devil he is such a man as I would fain see sitting in Gorumna Castle, Shaun!"
"Nothing," returned the wide-shouldered seaman with a shrug. "Except that there may be more to it than we think, Brian." "The Dark Master will not suspect your return so suddenly," spoke up Nuala. "Pay no heed to Shaun, Brian he was ever a croaker. When think you we had best start?" "I am no seaman," laughed Brian. "Get there at dawn, that is all.
Then said Shaun to his people, the few that had followed him thither: "Alas that we may not rest, but beyond us in the plain sitteth the one true god and he is wroth with mocking. Let us therefore leave these two that sit and mock and let us find the truth in the worship of that greater god, who even though he kill shall yet not mock us."
"I think that by striking at dawn we shall find most of the O'Donnells ashore or in the castle, and if you time your sailing to strike on their four ships at the same time we may easily take castle, camp, and ships at one blow." "If all went as men planned we would not need to pray Heaven for aid," quoth Shaun the Little sententiously. Brian glanced at him. "Eh? What do you mean by that?"
My marrid friends, listen to me: If you treat your wives as though' they were perfeck gentlemen if you show 'em that you have entire confidence in them believe me, they will be troo to you most always. I was so pleased with this conduct of Shaun that I hollered out, "Good boy! Come and see me!" "Silence!" sum people said.
We need scarcely add that Biddy won the kemp and the husband, and that she and Shaun lived long and happily together; and I have only now to wish, kind reader, that you and I may live longer and more happily still. There lived not long since, on the borders of the county Tipperary, a decent honest couple, whose names were Mick Flannigan and Judy Muldoon.
It may be that your prayers at evening shall avail when you pray to the god of the plain, but I must go onward, for there be gods beyond." So Shaun went down into the marsh, and for three days struggled through it, and on the third night saw the four gods not very far away, yet could not discern Their faces.
And the three old men answered: "We shall know indeed, O last of all the prophets." That night the two gods mocking at their worshippers mocked not at Shaun nor his three followers, who coming to the plain still travelled on till they came at last to a place where the eyes of Shaun at night could closely see the vast form of their god. And beyond them as far as the sky there lay a marsh.
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