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150 NEIL OCARREE.
was the same way this one was healed. The king was
grateful, and he said he did not mind how much money
Neil should take of him. He gave him three hundred
pounds of money. They went then, drawing on home.
" There's a king's son in such and such a place," said the
red man, " but we won't go to him, we will go home with
what we have."
They were drawing on home. The king (had)
bestowed half a score of heifers on them, to bring home
with them. They were walking away. When they
were in the place where Neil O'Carree hired the red
man, " I think," says the red man, *' that this is the place
I met you the first time." " I think it is," says Neil
O'Carree. " Musha, how shall we divide the money r "
" Two halves," says the red man, " that's the bargain was
in it." " I think it a great deal to give you a half," says
Neil O'Carree, " a third is big enough for you ; I have a
crumskeen and a galskeen (says Neil) and you have no-
thing." " I won't take anything," said the red man,
" unless I get the half." They fell out about the money.
The red man went and he left him.
Neil O'Carree was drawing home, riding on his beast.
He was driving his share of cattle. The day came hot.
The cattle went capering backwards and forwards. Neil
O'Carree was controlling them. When he would have
one or two caught the rest would be off when he used to
come back. He tied his garrawn (gelding) to a bit of a
tree. He was a-catching the cattle. At the last they
were all off and away. He did not know where they
went. He returned back to the place where he left his
garrawn and his money. Neither the garrawn nor the
money were to be got. He did not know then what he
should do. He thought he- would go to the house of the
king whose son was ill.