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" I do not know when I have seen it so 

 high," said the Parson. " If a good stiff 

 gale from the west were to spring up just 

 now and bank up the waters, the lands and 

 title of Enniskillen might pass back again 

 into the old family." 



" What do you mean ?" said the Captain. 



u It is a story of these parts," said the Par- 

 son, " and rather characteristic of the people, 

 too. I suppose you have been here long 

 enough to have heard, that all this country 

 once belonged to the families of Maguire, 

 MacManus, and O'Ruarke, who used to live 

 here in great happiness and prosperity, and 

 fight peaceably among themselves all the year 

 round, much in the style in which we saw 

 them fighting the other day. And so they 

 might have gone on to the end of the 

 chapter, had not Oliver Cromwell put an 

 end to their golden age, and made them fast 

 friends, by attacking them all three. Well, 

 you know the result, — he kicked out every 

 mother's son of them, and put very worthy 

 men, friends of his own, into their place. 

 But I think it is very likely that you do not 

 know, what I believe is perfectly true, that the 

 representatives of the ejected families keep 



