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Updated: May 7, 2025
On the third morning the king got up as usual before dawn, and as soon as he had eaten food he prepared to go out, when his wife stopped him. 'I would rather, she said, 'that you did not go to play with the Gruagach, for though twice you have won yet some day he will win, and then he will put trouble upon you. 'Oh!
On the morning the cowboy rose before his master, and the first words he said to the Gruagach were: "What keeps you from laughing, you who used to laugh so loud that the whole world heard you?" "I'm sorry," said the Gruagach, "that the daughter of the king of Erin sent you here."
'I will get it, replied the young man bravely; but as soon as he was out of sight of the Gruagach he pretended no more, and his face grew dark and his steps lagging. 'You have brought nothing with you to-night, said the queen, who was standing on the steps awaiting him.
'Does your bride please you? asked the Gruagach, who was standing at his own door. 'Ah! does she not! answered the king quickly, 'otherwise I should be hard indeed to please. But will you play a game to-day? 'I will, replied the Gruagach, and they played, and sometimes it seemed as if one would win, and sometimes the other, but in the end the king was the winner.
'I will get it, replied the young man bravely, but as soon as he was out of sight of the Gruagach, he pretended no more, and his face grew dark and his steps lagging. 'You have brought nothing with you to-night, said the queen, who was standing on the steps awaiting him.
'If you will take my counsel, you will play with someone else. 'No; I will play with the Gruagach, persisted the king. 'Well, if you must, you must, I suppose, answered the wizard; 'but if you win that game, ask as a prize the ugly crop-headed girl that stands behind the door. 'I will, said the king.
"If you don't tell me of your own will, I'll make you tell me," said the cowboy; and he put a face on himself that was terrible to look at, and running through the house like a madman, could find nothing that would give pain enough to the Gruagach but some ropes made of untanned sheepskin hanging on the wall.
'Give me the sword to look at, said the Gruagach, peering forward; but like a flash the king had drawn it from under his nose and pierced the mole, so that the Gruagach rolled over on the ground. 'Now I shall be at peace, thought the king.
"Who has dared to interfere with my fighting pet?" screamed Yellow Face. "I," said the cowboy; "and if your pet had had manners, he might be alive now." The cowboy and the Gruagach stood by the fire. A stork was boiling in the pot, as when the Gruagach came the first time.
Next morning after breakfast the Gruagach said to the Shee an Gannon: "Go out now and loosen my five golden cows and my bull without horns, and drive them to pasture; but when you have them out on the grass, be careful you don't let them go near the land of the giant."
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