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from the castle to the yard and that the dogs outside wouldn t leave a patch of skin on his back but would tear the life out of him the youngest daughter comforted him there is no danger to you said she for wherever i am you ll be and wherever you go i ll follow and take care of you when all was ready for the feast at the castle and the company were assembled the king was for banishing the white dog but the youngest daughter would not listen to her father would not let the white dog out of her sight but kept him near her at the feast and divided with him the food that came to herself when the feast was over and all the guests had gone the three sisters went to their own rooms in the castle late in the evening the queen took the cook with her and stole in to see what was in her daughters rooms they were all asleep at the time what should she see by the side of her youngest daughter but the most beautiful man she had ever laid eyes on then she went to where the other two daughters were sleeping and there instead of the two men who brought them to the feast were two seals fast asleep the queen was greatly troubled at the sight of the seals when she and the cook were returning they came upon the skin of the white dog she caught it up as she went and threw it into the kitchen fire the skin was not five minutes in the fire when it gave a crack that woke not only all in the castle but all in the country for miles around the husband of the youngest daughter sprang up he was very angry and very sorry and said if i had been able to spend three nights with you under your father s roof i should have got back my own form again for good and could have been a man both in the day and the night but now i must go he rose from the bed ran out of the castle and away he went as fast as ever his two legs could carry him overtaking the one before him and leaving the one behind he was this way all that night and the next day but he couldn t leave the wife for she followed from the castle was after him in the night and the day too and never lost sight of him in the afternoon he turned and told her to go back to her father but she would not listen to him at nightfall they came to the first house they had seen since leaving the castle he turned and said do you go inside and stay in this house till morning i ll pass the night outside where i am the wife went in the woman of the house rose up gave her a pleasant welcome and put a good supper before her she was not long in the house when a little boy came to her knee and called her mother the woman of the house told the child to go back to his place and not to come out again here are a pair of scissors said the woman of the house to the king s daughter and they will serve you well whatever ragged people you see if you cut a piece off their rags that moment they will have new clothes of cloth of gold she stayed that night for she had good welcome next morning when she went out her husband said you d better go home now to your father i ll not go to my father if i have to leave you said she so he went on and she followed it was that way all the day till night came and at nightfall they saw another house at the foot of a hill and again the husband stopped and said you go in i ll stop outside till morning the woman of the house gave her a good welcome after she had eaten and drunk a little boy came out of another room ran to her knee and said mother the woman of the house sent the boy back to where he had come from and told him to stay there next morning when the princess was going out to her husband the woman of the house gave her a comb and said if you meet any person with a diseased and a sore head and draw this comb over it three times the head will be well and covered with the most beautiful golden hair ever seen she took the comb and went out to her husband leave me now said he and go back to your own father i will not said she but i will follow you while i have the power so they went forward that day as on the other two at nightfall they came to a third house at the foot of a hill where the princess received a good welcome after she had eaten supper a little girl with only one eye came to her knee and said mother the princess began to cry at sight of the child thinking that she herself was the cause that it had but one eye then she put her hand into her pocket where she kept the handkerchief on which she had dropped the tear when the gray crow carried her infant away she had never used the handkerchief since that day for there was an eye on it she opened the handkerchief and put the eye in the girl s head it grew into the socket that minute and the child saw out of it as well as out of the other eye and then the woman of the house sent the little one to bed next morning as the king s daughter was going out the woman of the house gave her a whistle and said whenever you put this whistle to your mouth and blow on it all the birds of the air will come to you from every quarter under the sun be careful of the whistle as it may serve you greatly go back to your father s castle said the husband when she came to him for i must leave you to day they went on together a few hundred yards and then sat on a green hillock and he told the wife your mother has come between us but for her we might have lived together all our days if i had been allowed to pass three nights with you in your father s house i should have got back my form of a man both in the daytime and the night the queen of tir na n og the land of youth enchanted and put on me a spell that unless i could spend three nights with a wife under her father s roof in erin i should bear the form of a white dog one half of my time but if the skin of the dog should be burned before the three nights were over i must go down to her kingdom and marry the queen herself and tis to her i am going to day i have no power to stay and i must leave you so farewell you ll never see me again on the upper earth he left her sitting on the mound went a few steps forward to some bulrushes pulled up one and disappeared in the opening where the rush had been she stopped there sitting on the mound lamenting till evening not knowing what to do at last she bethought herself and going to the rushes pulled up a stalk went down followed her husband and never stopped till she came to the lower land after a while she reached a small house near a splendid castle she went into the house and asked could she stay there till morning you can said the woman of the house and welcome next day the woman of the house was washing clothes for that was how she made a living the princess fell to and helped her with the work in the course of that day the queen of tir na n og and the husband of the princess were married near the castle and not far from the washerwoman s lived a henwife with two ragged little daughters one of them came around the washerwoman s house to play the child looked so poor and her clothes were so torn and dirty that the princess took pity on her and cut the clothes with the scissors which she had that moment the most beautiful dress of cloth of gold ever seen on woman or child in that kingdom was on the henwife s daughter when she saw what she had on the child ran home to her mother as fast as ever she could go who gave you that dress asked the henwife a strange woman that is in that house beyond said the little girl pointing to the washerwoman s house the henwife went straight to the queen of tir na n og and said there is a strange woman in the place who will be likely to take your husband from you unless you banish her away or do something to her for she has a pair of scissors different from anything ever seen or heard of in this country when the queen heard this she sent word to the princess that unless the scissors were given up to her without delay she would have the head off her the princess said she would give up the scissors if the queen would let her pass one night with her husband the queen answered that she was willing to give her the one night the princess came and gave up the scissors and went to her own husband but the queen had given him a drink and he fell asleep and never woke till after the princess had gone in the morning next day another daughter of the henwife went to the washerwoman s house to play she was wretched looking her head being covered with scabs and sores the princess drew the comb three times over the child s head cured it and covered it with beautiful golden hair the little girl ran home and told her mother how the strange woman had drawn the comb over her head cured it and given her beautiful golden hair the henwife hurried off to the queen and said that strange woman has a comb with wonderful power to cure and give golden hair and she ll take your husband from you unless you banish her or take her life the queen sent word to the princess that unless she gave up the comb she would have her life the princess returned as answer that she would give up the comb if she might pass one night with the queen s husband the queen was willing and gave her husband a draught as before when the princess came he was fast asleep and did not waken till after she had gone in the morning on the third day the washerwoman and the princess went out to walk and the first daughter of the henwife with them when they were outside the town the princess put the whistle to her mouth and blew that moment the birds of the air flew to her from every direction in flocks among them was a bird of song and new tales the princess went to one side with the bird what means can i take asked she against the queen to get back my husband is it best to kill her and can i do it it is very hard said the bird to kill her there is no one in all tir na n og who is able to take her life but her own husband inside a holly tree in front of the castle is a wether in the wether a duck in the duck an egg and in that egg is her heart and life no man in tir na n og can cut that holly tree but her husband the princess blew the whistle again a fox and a hawk came to her she caught and put them into two boxes which the washerwoman had with her and took them to her new home when the henwife s daughter went home she told her mother about the whistle away ran the henwife to the queen and said that strange woman has a whistle that brings together all the birds of the air and she ll have your husband yet unless you take her head i ll take the whistle from her anyhow said the queen so she sent for the whistle the princess gave answer that she would give up the whistle if she might pass one night with the queen s husband the queen agreed and gave him a draught as on the other nights he was asleep when the princess came and when she went away before going the princess left a letter with his servant for the queen s husband in which she told how she had followed him to tir na n og and had given the scissors the comb and the whistle to pass three nights in his company but had not spoken to him because the queen had given him sleeping draughts that the life of the queen was in an egg the egg in a duck the duck in a wether the wether in a holly tree in front of the castle and that no man could split the tree but himself as soon as he got the letter the husband took an axe and went to the holly tree when he came to the tree he found the princess there before him having the two boxes with the fox and the hawk in them he struck the tree a few blows it split open and out sprang the wether he ran scarce twenty perches before the fox caught him the fox tore him open then the duck flew out the duck had not flown fifteen perches when the hawk caught and killed her smashing the egg that instant the queen of tir na n og died the husband kissed and embraced his faithful wife he gave a great feast and when the feast was over he burned the henwife with her house built a palace for the washerwoman and made his servant secretary they never left tir na n og and are living there happily now and so may we live here source http www worldoftales com posted in catharine mckenty irish memories of neil thought for the day uncategorized writing leave a comment tuesday writing conversation april 3 2018 musical instruments the wind sings songs among the trees andante when boughs groan weighed down by snow allegro as the branches brown but lighter now can wave more freely shake the nests of squirrels or of crow then the springtime gift of green is given first buds then leaves begin to show the sound of breeze is richer now a softer music when leaves not branches touch and dance the trees breath in the carbon particles breath out the oxygen we from the animal kingdom need the music of the spheres surrounds us let us open wide our hearts our eyes our ears all sings to us of beauty if we listen as music gathers volume through the years the orchestra gathers all its many voices each one is needed each can indeed be heeded as they add their special sounds to bring cacophony to harmony needs skill and love love for the miraculously rich melody of life the singing wind the words of sages the chattering people all around the music of all life resounds and echoes through the ages let us pay heed clare hallward posted in catharine mckenty memories of neil thought for the day tuesday writing conversation uncategorized writing leave a comment tuesday writing conversation march 27 2018 the greedy fox there was a woman in connemara the wife of a fisherman as he had always good luck she had plenty of fish at all times stored away in the house ready for market but to her great annoyance she found that a great fox used to come in at night and devour all the best and finest fish so she kept a big stick by her and determined to watch one day as she and a woman were spinning together the house suddenly became quite dark and the door was burst open as if by the blast of the tempest when in walked a huge red fox who went straight up to the fire then turned round and growled at them why surely this is foxy said a young girl who was by sorting fish i will teach you reverence said the fox and jumping at her he scratched her arm till the blood came there now he said you will be more civil another time when a gentleman comes to see you and with that he walked over to the door and shut it close to prevent any of them going out for the poor young girl while crying loudly from fright and pain had made a desperate rush to get away just then a man was going by and hearing the cries he pushed open the door and tried to get in but the fox stood on the threshold and would let no one pass on this the man attacked him with his stick and gave him a sound blow the fox however was more than a match in the fight for it flew at him and tore his face and hands so badly that the man at last took to his heels and ran away as fast as he could now it s time for my dinner said the fox going up to examine the fish that was laid out on the tables i hope the fish is good 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