WILD LIFE ON THE WING 
cavalcade passed on, but when the pedestrians 
came abreast of the elm, there hung upon it 
plain for all to see a dead fox. 
" Shure the dogs thought that they had that lad 
cot easy," said Andy Hogan innocently ; but 
the keeper, speechless with wrath, noticed that 
the smears of clay on his coat matched those 
which daubed the fox. 
That was the end of a long series of reprisals. 
Andy was told that the cottage in the glen 
was to be turned into an engine-house for the 
dynamos of the electric light which Mr. 
Geoghegan meant to install at Ballongarry, and 
that he must move out. Hogan snapped his 
fingers at first, and replied that he would live to 
be " waked " in the house that his honour 
Misther Thomas had given him ; but when he 
found that the matter was serious, he abused 
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