after surrounding and searching the whole place they could discover no trace of either saw or in fact with the exception of themselves there was no one either natural or supernatural visible they then returned frank martin and the to the house and had scarcely sat down when it was heard again within ten yards of them another examination of the premises took place but with equal success now however while standing on the forth they heard the in a little hollow about a hundred and fifty yards below them which was completely exposed to their view but could see nobody a party of them immediately went down to ascertain u possible what this singular noise and invisible labour could mean but on arriving at the spot they heard the to which were now added and the driving of nails upon the forth above whilst those who stood on the forth continued to hear it in the hollow on comparing notes they resolved to send down to s for frank martin a distance of only about eighty or ninety yards he was soon on the spot and without a moment s hesitation solved the tis the said he i see them and busy they are but what are they frank they are a child s coffin he replied they have the body already made an they re now the lid together that night the child certainly died and the story goes that on the second evening afterwards the car e enter who was called upon to make the coffin a table out from thomas s house to the forth as a temporary bench and it is said that the and necessary for the completion of his task were precisely the same which had been heard the evening but one before � neither more nor less i remember the death of the child myself and the making of its coffin but i think the story of the supernatural carpenter was not heard in the village for some months after its frank had every appearance of a about him at the time i saw him he might be about thirty four years oi age but i do not think from the of his frame and health that and the has been alive for several years lie was an object considerable interest and curiosity and often have i been present when he was pointed out to strangers as the man that could see the good people with respect to his solution of the supernatural noise that is easily accounted for this superstition of the coffin making is a common one and to a man like him mind was ir with it the illness of the child would naturally suggest the probability of its death which ho ly is with the and agents to be found in hia unhappy malady a legend of what irish man woman or child has not heard of our renowned the great and glorious fin m not one from cape clear to the giant s nor from that back again to cape clear and by the way speaking of the giant s brings me at once to the beginning of my story well it so happened that fin and his gigantic relatives were all working at the in order to make a bridge or what was still better a good stout road across to scotland when fin who was very fond of his wife took it into his head that he would go home and see how the poor woman got on in his absence to be sure fin was a true and so the sorrow thing in life brought him back only to see that she was snug and comfortable and above all things that she got her rest well at night for he knew that the poor woman when he was with her used to be subject to nightly and that kept him very anxious decent man striving to keep her up to the good spirits and health that she had when they were first married so accordingly he pulled up a fir tree and after off the roots and branches made a walking stick of it and set out on his way to or rather fin lived at this time on the very tip top of hill which faces a cousin of its own called that rises up half hill on the opposite side � east east by south as the sailors say when they wish to puzzle a now the truth is for it must come out that honest fin s affection for his wife though cordial enough in itself was by no ot t � aa s the real cause of a legend of his journey home there was at that time another giant named � some say he was irish and some say he was scotch � but whether scotch or irish sorrow doubt of it but he was a no other giant of the day could stand before him and such was his strength that when well vexed he could give a stamp that shook the country about him the fame and name of him went far and near and nothing in the shape of a man it was said had any chance with him in a fight whether the story is true or not i cannot say but the report went that by one blow of his fists he a and kept it in his pocket in t he shape of a to show to all his when they were about to fight him undoubtedly he had given every giant in ireland a considerable beating fin m himself and he swore by the solemn contents of s that he would never rest night or day winter or summer till he would serve fin with the same if he could catch him fin however who no doubt was the cock of the walk on his own had a strong to meet a 