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When you do, you'll know more than you know now, with all your age and with all your power. I told you once how I carried off the Princess of France and how Guleesh na Guss Dhu stole her from me. I cared nothing for her. It was only the soul that I'ld get from her that I wanted. And this time it was only the soul that I wanted, too, at first, but I loved this one in the end.
If I could only say to him: "Before I came to you I held John's and Kitty's child in my arms," then I'ld go gladly. That was what I said to myself that time. But it was Kitty that the banshee meant. And now, though I felt then the first time that I was an old woman, here I am still, and Kitty is gone and the child is grown up to be a woman and she is lost.
'It's a valuable bird, and then it's been my friend a long time, and I dunno what it would be thinking of me if I'd sell it. "'Maybe I'ld make it worth your while. said the landlady. "'I'm a poor man, says Donald. "'I'll fill your hat with silver, says the landlady, 'if you'll leave me the bird. "'I couldn't refuse that, says Donald; 'you may have the bird.
"And didn't I tell ye ye could bother them a little, but not too much? What would ye have done if I had told ye to do what ye liked wid them?" "What would I have done then? Oh, I'ld have shown ye the real fun then. What would I have done then? I'ld have pinched them and stuck pins in them all day and all night. I'ld have put charms on themselves, so that they'ld grow thinner than the pig.
And there I found that they were full of fairies already. But they seemed to be Dutch, and it's little English they could talk, let alone Irish. Still we got along, and they gave me some mighty fine drink that they had. And they said that we could come there, the whole tribe, and welcome kindly, and I'ld say it was a good place to go, only it's farther off than this from them we want to be near."
"I couldn't tell you that," said Naggeneen; "I couldn't say the words that I'ld have to say to tell you." "And how did they drive you out?" "By brewing egg-shells." "And do you mean," the King cried, "that you let them catch you with that old trick? I thought you was clever." "Let them catch me! I couldn't help what they did!
I knew that it was the banshee. No, I could not be wrong about her; I had heard her before. But I never thought of Kitty then. I thought: 'I'm an old woman an old woman though I would never let them say so; and now my time has come. I shall soon be with him again. If I could only see a child of John's and Kitty's before I go, I'ld go gladly.
But I knew that they'ld be listening and watching, and if they caught me at it, I'ld have to pay for it, if they could make me. So I kept my hands off them and only groaned and took on as if the dart in my hip was killing me entirely. "Then there was one hot afternoon, and everything was still about the house, and it was the harvest time, and they all had a right to be in the fields at work.
Where did you learn it, my boy?" "I never learned it at all," Terence answered; "I just saw the fiddle there and I thought I'ld see could I play it. But it's little I could be doing with it, I'm thinking." Peter was surprised enough to find that Terence could play a tune on a fiddle, and so was Ellen, when she heard about it.
"It's glad I'ld be," said the Queen, "if we could be rid of the Sullivans and Naggeneen both at once, but I dunno what we'll do at all if the O'Briens go away." "I'm not over-fond of Naggeneen meself," said the King, "but it's a sharp bit of a boy he is, and I'm thinkin' he may not be far from right this time.
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