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xiii); in Ireland he is Billy Dawson (Carleton, _Three Wishes_). In the Finn-Saga, Conan harries h.e.l.l, as readers of _Waverley_ may remember ”'Claw for claw, and devil take the shortest nails,' as Conan said to the Devil” (_cf._ Campbell, _The Fians_, 73, and notes, 283).

Red-haired men in Ireland and elsewhere are always rogues (see Mr.

Nutt's references, MacInnes's _Tales_, 477; to which add the case in ”Lough Neagh,” Yeats, _Irish Folk Tales_, p. 210).