The King of Ireland's Son

until the foxes came down and hid in the hedges, waiting for the cocks and hens to stir out

he King's Son. "Have you a message for me?" he asked. The owl shrugged with its wings three times. He thought that meant a message. He got o

se in the wood. The King's Son looked through the window and he saw a room lighted with candles and a table with plates and dishes and cups, with bread and meat and wine. And he saw at the fire a

. She had a little mouth, a long and a hooked nose, and her eyes looked cross-ways at a person. Th

ter of the Black Back-lands. My father is preparing a task for you," said she, "and it will be a terrible task, and there will be no o

for you to take the Slight Red Steed that my father has secured under nine locks. That steed is the only creature

do that?" said the K

uld marry you

live at all Fedelma is

f the house. All the time he was running the cat-o'-the-mountain was trying to tear his eyes out. He made his way through woods and thickets, and mighty glad he was when he saw the tank at the gable-end of the house. The cat-'o-the-mountain