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THE KING OF IRELAND'S SON. 19
out on a gap that was in it. (And how could she catch
the wild-geese ? Wouldn' t they fiy azvay in the air ? She
caught them, then. That's how I heard it.) And only that
the woman kept back some of the milk from her, she
would have killed them all.
There was a man of the Fenians, a blind man, and
when the pup was let out, he asked the people near him
how did the ; young hound do. They told him that the
young hound killed all the wild-geese and birds that
were in the glen, but a few that went out on a gap. " If
she had to get all the milk that came from the cow with-
out spot," says the blind man, " she wouldn't let a bird
at all go from her." And he asked then *' how was the
hound coming home ?" " She's coming now," said they,
"and a fiery cloud out of her neck," {How out of her
neck? Because she was going so quick^ "and she coming
madly."
" Grant me my request now," said the blind man. "Put
me sitting in the chair, and put a coal* (?) in my hand;
for unless I kill her she'll kill us."
The hound came, and he threw the coal at her and
killed her, and he blind.
But if that pup had to get all the milk, she'd come and
she'd lie down quietly, the same as Bran used to lie
ever.
THE KING OF IRELAND'S SON.
There was a king's son in Ireland long ago, and he
went out and took with him his gun and his dog. There
was snow out. He killed a raven. The raven fell on
the snow. He never saw anything whiter than the snow,
* Gual.