Chapter 2
He had not gone a great distance from Ben Edair when he came to
an intricate, gloomy wood, where the trees grew so thickly and the
undergrowth was such a sprout and tangle that one could scarcely
pass through it. He remembered that a path had once been hacked
through the wood, and he sought for this. It was a deeply scooped,
hollow way, and it ran or wriggled through the entire length of the
wood.
Into this gloomy drain Fionn descended and made progress, but
when he had penetrated deeply in the dank forest he heard a sound
of thumping and squelching footsteps, and he saw coming towards him
a horrible, evil-visaged being; a wild, monstrous, yellow-skinned,
big-boned giant, dressed in nothing but an ill-made, mud-plastered,
drab-coloured coat, which swaggled and clappe
