" They sent men to get the tun, and when it came Diarmuid
took it between his two hands and drank a drink out of it, and the
others drank what was left of it. Diarmuid took up the tun after that,
and brought it to the top of the hill, and he went up himself on the
tun, and let it go down the steep of the hill till it was at the bottom.
And then he brought the tun up the hill again, and he himself on it
coming and going, and he did that trick three times before the
strangers. But they said he was a man had never seen a good trick when
he called that a trick; and with that a man of them went up on the tun,
but Diarmuid gave a stroke of his foot at it and the young man fell from
it before it began to move, and it rolled over him and crushed him, that
he died. And another man went on it, and another after him again, till
fifty of them were killed trying to do Diarmuid's trick, and as many of
them as were not killed went back to their ships that night.
Diarmuid went back then to where he left Grania; and Muadhan put the
hair and the hook on the rod till he killed three salmon; and they ate
their meal that night, and he kept watch for them the same way he did
before.
Diarmuid went out early the next day again to the hill, and it was not
long till he saw the three strangers coming towards him, and he asked
them would they like to see any more tricks. They said they would sooner
get news of the grandson of Duibhne. "I saw a man that saw him
yesterday," said Diarmuid.
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