Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry: Witches, Fairy Doctors: The Witch Hare, by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall

THE WITCH HARE.

MR. AND MRS. S. C. HALL.

I WAS out thracking hares meeself, and I seen a fine puss of a thing hopping, hopping in the moonlight, and whacking her ears about, now up, now down, and winking her great eyes, and--"Here goes," says I, and the thing was so close to me that she turned round and looked at me, and then

"What's that on the floor?" sis I.

"Oh," she says, "I was cuttin' a billet of wood," she says, "wid the reaping hook," she says, "an' I've wounded meself in the leg," she says, "and that's drops of my precious blood," she says.