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WEST HIGHLAND TALES.
to the wedding, and when there thej' asked her to show some of
her wonderful tricks.
"Then she got a pock, and showed that it was empty; and
she gave it a shake, and it grew thick, and she put in her hand
and took out a silver hen, and she set it on the ground, and it
rose and walked about the house. Then came the golden cock,
and the grain of corn, and the pecking, and the hen said —
"Leig ma choir learn.
Ma chuid do n' eoma."
Leave me my right, my share of the corn ; and the cock pecked
her ; and she stood out from him, and said —
Geog Geog Geoa.
An cuimhne leat an latha
chuir mi m' bathach falamh
air do shon ?
'S an cuimhne leat an latha
a thubh mi n' sabhal
air do shon ?
'S an cuimhne leat an latha
ghlac mi n'fhailair
air do shon ?
'S an cuimhne leat an latha
bhàth mi m'athair
air do shon ?
Geog Geog Geoa.
Dost thou remember the day
that I emptied the byre
for thee ?
Dost thou remember the day
that I thatched the barn
for thee ?
Dost thou remember the day
that I caught the filly
for thee ?
Dost thou remember the'day
that I drowned my father
for thee ?
Then the king's son thought a little and he remembered
Auburn Mary, and all she had done for him, and he asked a
voice with her apart, and they had a little talk, and she told the
king and the queen, and he found the " gin " kin good, and he
turned his back on the other one, and he married Auburn Mary,
and they made a wedding that lasted seven years ; and the last
day was no worse than the first day —
S'ma bha na b'fhearr ann, bha,
S'mar robh leig da
And if there were better there were.
And if not, let them be.
The tale is ended.
Tha crioch air 'n sgeul.