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POPULAR TALES
OF
THE WEST HIGHLANDS.
XVIIL
THE CHEST.
From Mrs MacGeachy, Islay.
"OEFOEE this there was a king, and he wished
-^ to see his son with a wife before he should depart.
His son said he had better go for a wife ; and he gave
liim half a hundred pounds to get her. He went for-
ward the length of a day, and when the night came he
went in to a hostelry to stay in. it. He went down to a
chamber with a good fire in front of him ; and when he
had gotten meat, the man of the house went down to
talk to him. He told the man of the house the jour-
ney on which he was. The man of the house told
him he need not go further ; that there was a little
house opposite to his sleeping chamber ; that the man
of the house had three fine daughters ; and if he would
stand in the window of his chamber in the morning,
that he would see one after another coming to dress
herself Tliat they were all like each other, and that
he could not distinguish one from the other, but that
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