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Paddy O'Kelly and the Weasel
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They were hurling away, and the pipers playing music, until Paddy O'Kelly saw the host of Munster getting the
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strong hand, and he began helping the fairy host of Connacht.
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The Stongirya came up and he made at Paddy O'Kelly, but Paddy turned him head over heels. From hurling the two hosts began at fighting, but it was not long until the host of Connacht beat the other host. Then the host of Munster made flying beetles
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of themselves, and they began eating every green thing that they came up to. They were destroying the country before them until they came as far as Cong. Then there rose up thousands of doves out of the hole, and they swallowed down the beetles.
