may be able to annoy him."

"Don't trouble yourself," replied the other, "I am past
enjoyment and am, moreover, a respectable woman."

"That is no more than the truth, indeed."

"I have always done the right thing at the right time."

"I'd be the last body in the world to deny that," was
the warm response.

"Very well, then," said the Grey Woman, and she
commenced to take off her boots. She stood in the cen-
tre of the room and balanced herself on her toe.

"You are a decent, respectable lady," said the Thin
Woman of Inis Magrath, and then the Grey Woman be-
gan to gyrate rapidly and more rapidly until she was a
very fervour of motion, and in three-quarters of an hour
(for she was very tough) she began to slacken, grew
visible, wobbled, and fell beside her dead husband, and
on her face was a beatitude almost surpassing his.

The Thin Woman of Inis Magrath smacked the chil-
dren and put them to bed, next she buried the two bodies
under the hearthstone, and then, with some trouble, de-
tached her husband from his meditations. When he
became capable of ordinary occurrences she detailed all
that had happened, and said that he alone was to blame