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148 NEIL O'CARREE.
to go and live in it. During many years after that,
people would go round about a mile, before they would
go near the old court. There is only a portion of the
walls to be found now ; but there is no name on the old
court from that day till this day, but Coort a Chrinnawn
(Crinnawn's Court).
NEIL O'CARREE.
There was no nicety about him. He said to his wife
that he would go to the forge to get a doctoring instru-
ment. He went to the forge the next day. " Where are
you going to to-da}'' ? " said the smith. " I am going
till you make me an instrument for doctoring." " What
is the instrument I shall make you ? " " Make a
crumskeen and Sigalskeen (crooked knife and white knife ?)
The smith made that for him. He came home.
When the day came — the day on the morrow — Neil
OCarree rose up. He made ready to be going as a
doctor. He went. He was walking away. A red lad
met him on the side of the high road. He saluted
Neil O'Carree; Neil saluted him. "Where are you
going ? " says the red man. " I am going till I be my
[i.e., a.) doctor. " It's a good trade," says the red man,
" 'twere best for you to hire me." " What's the wages
you'll be looking for ? " says Neil. " Half of what we
shall earn till we shall be back again on this ground."
"I'll give you that," says Neil. The couple walked on.
"There's a king's daughter," says the red man, with
the [i.e., near to) death ; we will go as far as her, till we
see will we heal her." They went as far as the gate.
The porter came to them. He asked them where were
they going. They said that it was coming to look at