_Cracked Mary:_ There is police after him, but they cannot come up with him; he destroyed a splendid sow; nine bonavs they buried or less.

_Shawn Early:_ What place is he gone now?

_Cracked Mary:_ He made off towards Craughwell, and he bit a fine young man.

_Bartley Fallen:_ So he would too. Sure, when a mad dog would be going about, on horseback or wherever you are, you're ruined.

_Cracked Mary:_ That dog is going on all the time; he wouldn't stop, but go ahead and bring that mouthful with him. He is still on the road; he is keeping the middle of the road; they say he is as big as a calf.

_Hyacinth Halvey:_ It is the police I have a right to forewarn to go after him.

_Cracked Mary:_ The motor cars is going to get out to track him, for fear he would destroy the world!

_Mrs. Broderick:_ That is a very nice thought now, to be sending the motor cars after him to overturn and to crush him the same as an a.s.s-car in their path.

_Cracked Mary:_ You can't save yourself from a dog; he is after his own equals, dogs. He is doing every harm. They are out night and day.

_Shawn Early:_ Sure, a mad dog would go from this to Kinvara in a half a minute, like the train.

_Cracked Mary:_ He won't stay in this country down--he goes the straight road--he takes by the wind. He is as big as a yearling calf.

_Mrs. Broderick:_ I wouldn't ever forgive myself I to see him.

_Cracked Mary:_ He is not very heavy yet. There is only the relics in him.

_Hyacinth Halvey:_ They have a right to bring their rifles in their hand.

_Cracked Mary:_ The police is afraid of their life. They wrote for motor cars to follow him. Sure, he'd destroy the beasts of the field.

A milch cow, he to grab at her, she's settled. Terrible wicked he is; he's as big as five dogs, and he does be very strong. I hope in the Lord he'll be caught. It will be a blessing from the Almighty G.o.d to kill that dog.

_Hyacinth Halvey:_ He is surely the one is raging through the street.

_Peter Tannian:_ Why wouldn't he be him? Is it likely there would be two of them in it at the one time?

_Shawn Early:_ A queer cut of a dog he was; a lurcher, a b.a.s.t.a.r.d hound.

_Peter Tannian:_ I would say him to be about the size of the foal of a horse.

_Mrs. Broderick:_ Didn't he behave well not to do ourselves an injury?

_Bartley Fallon:_ It is likely he will do great destruction. I wouldn't say but I felt the weight of him and his two paws around my neck.

_Hyacinth Halvey:_ I will go out following him.

_Shawn Early: (Holding him)_. Oh, let you not endanger yourself!

It is the peelers should go follow him, that are armed with their batons and their guns.

_Hyacinth Halvey:_ I'll go. He might do some injury going through the town.

_Mrs. Broderick:_ Ah now, it is not yourself we would let go into danger! It is Peter Tannian should go, if any person should go.

_Peter Tannian:_ Is it Hyacinth Halvey you are taking to be so far before myself?

_Mrs. Broderick:_ Why wouldn't he be before you?

_Peter Tannian:_ Ask him what was he in Carrow? Ask was he a sort of a corner-boy, ringing the bell, pumping water, gathering a few coppers in the daytime for to scatter on a game of cards.

_Hyacinth Halvey:_ Stop your lies and your chat!

_Mrs. Broderick: (to Tannian_) You are going light in the head to talk that way.

_Shawn Early:_ He is, and queer in the mind. Take care did he get a bite from the dog, that left some venom working in his blood.

_Hyacinth Halvey:_ So he might, and he having a sort of a little rent in his sleeve.

_Peter Tannian:_ I to have got a bite from the dog, is it? I did not come anear him at all. You to strip me as bare as winter you will not find the track of his teeth. It is Shawn Early was nearer to him than what I was.

_Shawn Early:_ I was not nearer, or as near as what Mrs. Broderick was.

_Mrs. Broderick:_ I made away when I saw him. My chest is not the better of it yet. Since I left off fretting I got gross. I am that nervous I would run from a blessed sheep, let alone a dog.

_Shawn Early:_ To see any of the signs of madness upon him, it is Mr. Halvey the sergeant would look to for to make his report.

_Hyacinth Halvey:_ So I would make a report.

_Peter Tannian:_ Is it that you lay down you can see signs? Is that the learning they were giving you in Carrow?

_Mrs. Broderick:_ Don't be speaking with him at all. It is easy know the signs. A person to be laughing and mocking, and that would not have the same habits with yourself, or to have no fear of things you would be in dread of, or to be using a different cla.s.s of food.

_Peter Tannian:_ I use no food but clean food.

_Hyacinth Halvey:_ To be giddy in the head is a sign, and to be talking of things that pa.s.sed years ago.

_Peter Tannian:_ I am talking of nothing but the thing I have a right to talk of.

_Mrs. Broderick:_ To be nervous and thinking and pausing, and playing with knicknacks.

_Peter Tannian:_ It never was my habit to be playing with knicknacks.

_Bartley Fallon:_ When the master in the school where I was went queer, he beat me with two clean rods, and wrote my name with my own blood.

_Mrs. Broderick:_ To take the shoe off their foot, and to hit out right and left with it, bawling their life out, tearing their clothes, scattering and casting them in every part; or to run naked through the town, and all the people after them.

_Shawn Early:_ To be jumping the height of trees they do be, and all the people striving to slacken them.

_Hyacinth Halvey:_ To steal prayer-books and rosaries, and to be saying prayers they never could keep in mind before.

_Mrs. Broderick:_ Very strong, that they could leap a wall--jumping and pushing and kicking--or to tie people to one another with a rope.