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Identifier: irishliterature04read (find matches)
Title: The cabinet of Irish literature; selections from the works of the chief poet, orators, and prose writers of Ireland
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Read, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1841-1878 Tynan, Katharine, 1861-1931 O'Connor, T. P. (Thomas Power), 1848-1929
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Publisher: London : The Gresham Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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irlegs and feet, so that they seemed to themen who had come not to be human beingsat all, but just like sods of earth coveredup by the snow, because they did not per-ceive motion in their limbs, but just as ifthey were dead, and they were nearly so.Wherefore the heroes raised them fromwhere they lay and bade them take someof the food and of the ale, and they did notsucceed, for every drink they took they let itout of their mouths again. However, Artdied at last, and was buried in that place.As for Hugh he retained the beer after that,and his strength was on the increase aftei-drinking, except in his two feet, for they werelike dead members without motion, owing tothe swelling and blistering from the frostand snow. The men carried him to thevalley of which we have spoken. He wasput into a house hidden in a remote part ofthe thick wood. He had medical skill andcare in every way he needed until the arrivalof a me.ssenger in secret to inquire and getnews about him from his brother-in-law,
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FATHER RUSSELL From a Photograth by CHAXCELLOR REV. MATTHEW RUSSELL, S.J. 145 Hugh ONeill. He prepared to set off afterthe messenger had come to him. It waspainful to him to go on that journey, for thephysicians could not heal his feet all at onceafter being pierced by the frost, as we havesaid, and someone else was needed to puthim on horseback and to take him betweenhis two hands again whenever he alighted.He was so until the physicians cut off histwo great toes after a while, when he cameto his own country. Fiach sent a troop ofhorse with him in the night to escort himacross the river Liffey ; this is a river on theconfines of the province of Leinster and ofMeath. There were ambu.scades and watchesfrom the English of Dublin on the shallowfords of the rivers, and on the usual roadssince they heard that Hugh ODonnell wasin Glenmalure, that he might not escape bythem to the province of Conor, and that the prisoners too might not escape who liad fledwith him out of the castle ; so that

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