"Well, what was it that knocked a howl out of you like the yelp of a sick dog, honest man?"

"Go away," said mac an Dáv, "go away, you flat-faced, nosy person."

"There is no politeness left in this country," said the stranger, and he went away to a certain distance, and from thence he threw a stone at mac an Dáv's nose, and hit it.