The daylight was shining in through the windows when Fergus recovered from his swoon, and then he told his fearful story; but many days passed over before he had quite recovered from the horrors of that night. When the family came forth in the morning there was fearful waste all round and near the house, trees and bushes torn from the roots, and the ground all trampled and torn up. After this the revelry of the demons was never again heard from the rock; and it was believed that they had left it and betaken themselves to some other haunt.
FOOTNOTES.
[6] A fort is the same as a rath (see [p. 70]); a few are fenced in with unmortared stone walls instead of clay ditches.
THE MAN WHO NEVER KNEW FEAR
Translated from the Gaelic by Douglas Hyde
here was once a lady, and she had two sons whose names were Louras (Lawrence) and Carrol. From the day that Lawrence was born nothing ever made him afraid, but Carrol would never go outside the door from the time the darkness of the night began.