"He put them back," said he.
"Only for that," he continued, "we might have had to recover them ourselves."
"Would you have been able to get them back?" said Mac Cann humbly.
"We would have got them back; there is nothing in the world could stand against us two; there is nothing in the world could stand against one of us."
Patsy jerked a thumb to where Art was lilting the open bars of "The Wind that shakes the Barley":
"Wouldn't the boy help?" said he. "How old is the lad?"
"I don't know," smiled Caeltia. "He remembers more than one Day of a Great Breath, but he has no power for he has never had being, and so did not win to knowledge; he could give help, for he is very strong."
"Could you have licked Cuchulain that day?" said Patsy timidly.
"I am older than he," replied Caeltia, "that is to say I am wiser than he."
"But he was up there with yourself and could learn the tricks."