urgent that she could scarcely delay to eat her breakfast.
Immediately after she had eaten she put on her bonnet
and shawl and went through the pine wood in the direc-
tion of Gort na Cloca Mora. In a short time she reached
the rocky field, and, walking over to the tree in the south-
east corner, she picked up a small stone and hammered
loudly against the trunk of the tree. She hammered in
a peculiar fashion, giving two knocks and then three
knocks, and then one knock. A voice came up from the
hole.

"Who is that, please?" said the voice.

"Ban na Droid of Inis Magrath, and well you know
it," was her reply.

"I am coming up, Noble Woman," said the voice, and
in another moment the Leprecaun leaped out of the hole.

"Where are Seumas and Brigid Beg?" said the Thin
Woman sternly.

"How would I know where they are?" replied the
Leprecaun. "Wouldn't they be at home now?"

"If they were at home I wouldn't have come here
looking for them," was her reply. "It is my belief that
you have them."

"Search me," said the Leprecaun, opening his waist-