[Illustration: _Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder_] An’ Patrick, seein’ how the matter lay—Finola bein’ raycovered from her swoon an’ clingin’ tight to Keth—thin an’ there married an’ blissed thim. * * * * * [Illustration] [Illustration] ’Tis towld in the books how Keth became a bishop, though niver would he altogether lay aside the handstone which had lain low the last idol in Ireland, an’ how all the four fine sons that Finola bore him were sure death to snakes an’ Druid wizards till not wan of ayther was lift in the land. Concernin’ the grotto, an’ the headless idol in it, all there prisint bein’ now convertid Christians, by their own free will they prisintly destroyed ivery vistige of both. Yet to this day there remains on the lips of all the Irish race in time of trouble or worry that same ancient invocation: “O Wurra-Wurra!” An’ the ixplanation is Patrick’s own desire that it should be so. For, as he raymarked upon that occasion, Wurra-Wurra, as spoken in the Gaelic, is the same as wan calling upon the blissid Virgin, “O Mary!” in that tongue. FINIS. [Illustration] [Illustration: WURRA-WURRA From a Photograph of the original wax model of the reconstructed Idol. “Ye’ve only to whisper your worries into the blissed ear of Wurra-Wurra an’ they’ll all fall from ye, lavin’ ye clane an’ paceful an’ in your right mind.”—_Legend of Wurra-Wurra._] HISTORICAL NOTES HISTORICAL NOTES ON THE LEGEND BANBA (p. 39): “Banba, the queen of one of the three Dedannan princes, who ruled the land, sent a swarm of meisa, or phantoms, which froze the blood of the invaders (the Milesians) with terror.”—_Joyce’s Social History of Ancient Ireland._ BOG-CURED CHEESE (p. 72): “Masses of cheese have been found in bogs, of which some specimens may be seen in the National Museum.”—_Joyce’s Social History._ BOOK OF THE DUN COW (p. 14): “One of the most ancient collections of Irish historical and legendary material, curiously named for the color of the cow in whose tanned skin it was bound.”—_Joyce._ BREHON LAW (p. 44): “A judge was called a Brehon.... The Brehons had absolutely in their hands the interpretation of the laws and the application of them to individual cases.”—_Joyce._ CROMM CRUACH (p. 11): “Cromm Cruach, covered with gold and silver, and twelve other idols covered with brass about him.”—_Tripartite Life of St. Patrick._ “And the earth swallowed up the twelve other images as far as their heads, and they stand thus in token of the miracle.”—_Book of Armagh._ DEDANNAN FURIES (p. 22): “A mythical race of powerful, demoniac and dangerous elves.”—_Joyce._