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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Oh! she looks like like like the gruagach girl in the story," said Gilian, remembering the tale of the sea-maiden who sat on the shore and dressed her hair with a comb of gold. "Still still," said Gilian, "the gruagach was worth the drowning for." Miss Mary looked at him with a sigh for a spirit so much to be envied. "This may be but a chapter in a very old tale," said she.
But the cowboy made after the hare, and the Gruagach after the cowboy, and they ran as fast as ever their legs could carry them till nightfall; and when the hare was entering the castle where the twelve sons of the Gruagach were killed, the cowboy caught him by the two hind legs and dashed out his brains against the wall; and the skull of the hare was knocked into the chief room of the castle, and fell at the feet of the master of the place.
The cowboy drew his hand on the bride-groom, and gave a blow that sent him spinning till he stopped under a table at the other side of the room. "What scoundrel struck that blow?" asked the king of Erin. "It was I," said the cowboy. "What reason had you to strike the man who won my daughter?" "It was I who won your daughter, not he; and if you don't believe me, the Gruagach Gaire is here himself.
So before the sun rose he got up and went to the house of the Gruagach, who was sitting outside. 'O king, what has brought you here to-day? asked the Gruagach. 'But right welcome you are, and more welcome will you be still if you will play a game with me.
'Why, there are twenty others in the house, and each fairer than she, exclaimed the Gruagach. 'Fairer they may be, but it is she whom I wish for my wife, and none other, and the Gruagach saw that the king's mind was set upon her, so he entered his house, and bade all the maidens in it come out one by one, and pass before the king.
But though the king was young and eager, he was also prudent, and his father had told him on his deathbed to be very careful in his dealings with the 'good people, as the fairies were called. Therefore before going to the Gruagach, the king sought out a wise man of the country side. 'I am wanting to play a game with the curly-haired Gruagach, said he. 'Are you, indeed? replied the wizard.
'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.
'What is the prize that you will choose? asked the Gruagach. 'The shaggy young horse with the stick saddle, answered the king, but he noticed that the Gruagach held his peace, and his brow was dark as he led out the horse from the stable. Rough was its mane and dull was its skin, but the king cared nothing for that, and throwing his leg over the stick saddle, rode away like the wind.
So before the sun rose he got up and went to the house of the Gruagach, who was sitting outside. 'O king, what has brought you here to-day? asked the Gruagach. 'But right welcome you are, and more welcome will you be still if you will play a game with me.
'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.
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