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"What is there in it that I can't do?" he asked. "Do you not all know of the coaches in Ireland that are drawn by horses without heads and driven by coachmen without heads?" All the fairies looked at one another and nodded and said, "Yes, yes, we know." But Naggeneen came forward and stood before the throne. Nobody had noticed that he had been listening or that he was there.
One day the King came to him as he sat in his corner alone and said, "Naggeneen, we are all going to the wedding. Will you come with us?" "Leave me be," said Naggeneen. "Why would I want to see it? I don't know if I'll ever go with you or do anything with you again, or with anyone, but I know I'll not now." All the people who were passing St.
"Naggeneen," said the King, "we've never been too fond of you, it's true, but maybe we'ld have liked you better if you'd told us this before. But you're cleverer than all of us. Tell us what we'll do now, so that these mortals won't be getting the better of us all out." "What'll you do?" Naggeneen answered; "there's nothing you can do. They'll outwit you, whatever you do."
It looked cold and stony and uncomfortable. It did not look like a good place to dance out of doors at night. They almost wished that they had stayed at home and let the O'Briens and the Sullivans go where they liked without them. Some of them even wanted to go back, but Naggeneen laughed at them, and fairies can stand being laughed at even less than human beings.
In an instant all the rest were dancing, too, alone, in pairs, and in rings. Naggeneen looked on and laughed till he could scarcely play. All this time his music had moved him less than anybody else who heard it. He did not feel what he had made the others feel, but he knew how to pour it all out of his fiddle. The King made a sign for him to stop. All the dancers were still in an instant.
He went on instead: "Can I not send any one of you on a message, as fast as the wind?" "But can you talk for ten miles," Naggeneen asked, "and will the very voice of you go as fast as the lightning?" "Why would I want to be doin' that," said the King, "when I can send a messenger as fast as I like?" "That's not the question," said the cruel Naggeneen; "can you do it?"
"It's not hard at all," said Naggeneen, "and it's been done before this. I was near doin' it meself once. I don't suppose ye remember me old friend MacCarthy." "MacCarthy of Ballinacarthy?" the King asked. "The same," said Naggeneen, "and it was he was the good friend to mortal or fairy. It was he kept the good house and the good table and the good cellar more especially the good cellar.
"'And which of them all is the Princess? says Guleesh to me. "'That one there near to ye, says I, pointing her out." Naggeneen stopped in his story and seemed to forget for a moment that he was telling it. "Oh, but she was the beauty of the world!" he went on, speaking so low that the fairies could scarcely hear him.
"He has learned them, I think," he said, "but he has never taught them to us. And you know Naggeneen himself said the plan would be no use." "He did," said the Queen; "only you would try it. And just so all this talk is no use. What will we do for a nurse for the baby?" "We'll find one some way," the King answered. "Was you thinking of anyone in particular?"
She did not need to do any work now, though she would do some, and the rest was good for her, but she was still pale and still weak. Though the Sullivans did not find their fortunes so much improved in the new country as the O'Briens did, yet they felt that they had gained, too, and in one way especially. For the King of the fairies had forbidden Naggeneen to trouble them any more.
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