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NOTE

I HAVE to thank Lady Wilde for leave to give 'Seanchan the Bard' from her Ancient Legends of Ireland (Ward and Downey), the most poetical and ample collection of Irish folk-lore yet published; Mr. Standish O'Grady for leave to give 'The Knighting of Cuculain' from that prose epic he has curiously named History of Ireland, Heroic Period; Professor Joyce for his 'Fergus O'Mara and the Air Demons'; and Mr. Douglas Hyde for his unpublished story, 'The Man who never knew Fear.'