"And now, the home of an honest race is a heap of rubbish; and the bleak wind whistles over the hearth where the warm welcome was ever found; and the cold frog crouches under the ruins.
"These stones are from that desolate place, and the curse of God that follows oppression is on them.—And let them be cast into the grave, and they will lie with the weight of a mountain on the monster that is buried for ever."
So saying, he lifted stone after stone, and flung them fiercely into the pits then, after a moment's pause upon its verge, he suddenly strode away with the same noiseless step that he had approached, and left the scene in silence.
[[1]] The cabhien was an ancient head-dress of gorgeous material, and the name is applied in derision to a shabby hat.
[[2]] The crop being often valued in a green state in Ireland, the appraiser becomes a very obnoxious person.
[[3]] Botany Bay.
[[4]] The stump of pipe.
[[5]] Excepting.
[[6]] Keeners are persons who sing the Ulican, or death wail, round the coffin of the deceased, and repeat the good deeds of the departed.
[[7]] I think Ware mentions an ancient crown being dug up at the "The Devil's Bit."