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NEIL O'CARREE. " 149
the king's daughter they were, to see would they do her
good. The king desired to let them in. They went in.
They went to the place where the girl was lying. The
red man went and took hold of her pulse. He said that
if his master should get the price of his labour he would
heal her. The king said that he would give his master
whatever he should award himself. He said, " if he had
the room to himself and his master, that it would be
better." The king said he should have it.
He desired to bring down to him a skillet (little pot) of
water. He put the skillet on the fire. He asked Neil
O'Carree: "Where is the doctoring instrument ? " " Here
they are," says Xeil, " a crumskeen and a galskeen."
He put the crumskeen on the neck of the girl. He
took the head off her. He drev/ a green herb out of his
pocket. He rubbed it to the neck. There did not come
one drop of blood. He threw the head into the skillet.
He knocked a boil out of it. He seized hold on the
two ears. He took it out of the skillet. He struck it
down on the neck. The head stuck as well as ever it
was. " How do you feel yourself now." " I am as well
as ever I was," said the king's daughter.
The big man shouted. The king came down. There
was great joy on him. He would not let them go away
for three days. When they were going he brought down
a bag of money. He poured it out on the table. He
asked of Neil O'Carree had he enough there. Xeil said
he had, and more than enough, that they would take but
the half. The king desired them not to spare the money.
" There's the daughter of another king waiting for us
to go and look at her." They bade farewell to the king
and they went there.
They went looking at her. They went to the place
where she was lying, looking at her in her bed, and it