I think it is now near fifty years ago since he hanged himself." "'Tis said, sir, that this account comes from one of his own relations; but there's another account, sir, of the _Shan-dhinne-dhuv_ that I don't believe a word of." "Another--what is that, Bandy ?" "O, bedad, sir," replied Bandy, "it's more than I could venture to tell you here." "Come, come--out with it." Mrs.Lindsay went over with an inflamed face, and having ordered him to go about his business, slapped down the window with great violence, giving poor Bandy a look of wrath and intimidation that sealed his lips upon the subject of the other tradition he alluded to.

He was, consequently, glad to escape from the threatening storm which he saw brewing in her countenance, and, consequently, made a very hasty retreat.

Barney, who met him in the yard returning to fetch his pack from the kitchen, noticed his perturbation, and asked him what was the matter.
"May the Lord protect me from that woman's eye!" replied the pedler, "if you'd 'a' seen the look she gave me when she thought I was goin' to tell them the true story of the Shan-dhinne-dhuv." "And why should she put a sword in her eye against you for that, Bandy ?" asked the other.
Bandy looked cautiously about him, and said in a whisper: "Because it's connected with her family, and follows it." He then proceeded to the kitchen, and having secured his pack, he made as rapid a disappearance as possible from about the premises..