FINTAIN.
No, there is plenty for us both.
BARACH.
Come with me where it is.
FINTAIN.
(who is being led towards the door at the back by Barach) O, it is all right, it is in a safe place.
BARACH.
It is a fine fowl. It was the biggest in the yard.
FINTAIN.
It had a good smell, but I hope that the wild dogs have not smelt it. (Voices are heard outside the door at the side.) Here is our master. Let us stay and talk with him. Perhaps Cuchullain will give you a new cap with a feather. He told me that he would give you a new cap with a feather, a feather with an eye that looks at you, a peacock's feather.
BARACH.
No, no (he begins pulling Fintain towards the door.)
FINTAIN.
If you do not get it now, you may never get it, for the young man may kill him.
BARACH.
No, no I am hungry. What a head you have, blind man. Who but you would have remembered that the hen-wife slept for a little at noon every day.
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