Chapter 5
Within the cave there was silence except for the voices of the
hags and the scarcely audible moaning of the Fianna-Finn, but
without there was a dreadful uproar, for as each man returned from
the chase his dogs came with him, and although the men went into
the cave the dogs did not.
They were too wise.
They stood outside, filled with savagery and terror, for they
could scent their masters and their masters' danger, and perhaps
they could get from the cave smells till then unknown and full of
alarm.
From the troop of dogs there arose a baying and barking, a
snarling and howling and growling, a yelping and squealing and
bawling for which no words can be found. Now and again a dog nosed
among a thousand smells and scented his master; the ruff of his
neck stood up like
