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2. “There was the woman uttering shriek upon shriek.” For use of article with bean, see p. 63, 3.
3. See note 15, p. 55.
4. "He is starving."
5. “The amount which he is getting would not make (buy) tobacco for him.”
6. “Why did the child laugh when you cried out?”
7. See note 11, p. 52.
8. “How they signal to one another.”
9. “Since we do not know where might be the entrance to, or path up to, the doors.” Cf. cá ḃfuil dul insteaċ ar an tiġ seo? Where is the entrance to this house?
10. “At the end of a month.”
11. This is the rel. verb. It should not be allowed to disappear from literature. It is still commonly, but not correctly, used in many parts of the country. The verb has this rel. form only in 3rd sing, and plu., pres. and fut. an duine (or na daoine) ḃuaileas (or ḃualfeas) é, the person (or persons) who strike(s) (or will strike) him. So also, an fear ḃuaileas sé, the man whom he strikes. But in the last sentence, if we had siad instead of sé, we should write ḃuaileann. For sentences in which “by whom,” “at whom,” i.e., oblique, relative occurs, see C. C. C, p. 100, last note. See, also, above note 34, p. 54. N.B.—The above is Keating's usage, and is incorrect according to Old Irish Grammar.
12. “He told him that the light of the liss in which lie himself was working was directed towards the liss north of it [the liss in which he was working was to the west], and (he said) the light in the northern liss is directed towards the liss south of it, and the light in the southern liss is directed towards the liss east of it. All the lights are connected with one another.”
13. “Come to-night to the liss with your men, and place some of your men at each of the three entrances.” Each liss appears to have had three entrances, one facing the north to receive the signal from the liss due north, one facing north-east, and another south to signal to the two lisses in these directions. The liss of which there is question is, obviously, invisible except for the openings. It is implied that, as the direction of the signals is the same in every liss, the discovery of one liss will lead to the discovery of three others in its neighbourhood, and that the discovery of these three will lead to the discovery of others, and so on until the whole network of lisses is discovered.
14. “He continued slaying them,” do ḃí sí ag obair léi, “she continued at work.” This is the force of le. The people translate it “away.” “He was killing them away.”
