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Then you'll learn all these things that men do, and you can do the like." "Ah, Naggeneen," said the King, "it's yourself was always the clever boy. We'll do that same." "You will so," Naggeneen replied, "and no good will it ever do you. I've told you before and I tell you again, you'll never do the things that men do.
So the people have great respect for a fairy-man or a fairy-woman, and they often send to one of them for help, when they think that the fairies may have done them a mischief. "They left the pipes beside me," Naggeneen went on, "and then they went away. Oh, it was then I had the terrible time all out. Oh, may I never long for anything again as I longed to play them pipes!
The King of All Ireland had only a little bit of brogue the Dublin kind. "Sure," said the King of the rath, "that's only poor Naggeneen." "Only poor Naggeneen!" cried the King of All Ireland. "And what are you doing with him? Do you see the red jacket he has on? Why doesn't he wear a green jacket, like your people?
If I'm to have you in me cellar, wherever it is, it may as well be at Ballinacarthy as anywhere. "And from that day till the day of his death me and old MacCarthy was the best of friends. And he always brought all his wine from the cellar himself." "And what has all that to do wid us?" said the King. "What has it to do wid ye?" said Naggeneen.
"But you'ld be leaving one of your own people in the place of it," Naggeneen answered, "and they'ld never know the differ. Or if they did, it would be no matter. A woman makes a great hullabaloo when her child looks sick and she thinks it's dying on her, but she doesn't care at all after a little. And then, it doesn't die, and she thinks it's her own child all the time, and there's no harm done.
The King often asked Naggeneen what was the one other way that he had said they might try. Naggeneen would never tell. When the time came to try it, he said, he would tell what it was, but it would be of no more use than the rest that they had done. Naggeneen laughed at all the others when they came home baffled and out of sorts.
"If Naggeneen goes," the King replied, "he'll go along wid us; we'll not go wid him; but it was just that same that I was thinkin'. And yet we couldn't do a thing like that widout the lave of the King of All Ireland." When the King spoke of the King of All Ireland, of course he meant the King of all the fairies in Ireland. He was himself only the King of this rath.
If you have read this book as far as here, you know that most fairies are thousands of years old, and you know, too for Naggeneen has told you what is likely to become of them in the end. Still, there is no sort of doubt that now and then a new fairy is born, and there was one born on this day.
"I forbid you ever to touch her, Naggeneen, and none of us ever will." "Don't fear for me," said Naggeneen. "I'll never go near her. I've had enough." "And we've all had enough," said the King; "so now, Naggeneen, play for us." "Leave me be," said Naggeneen; "I'll never play for you again. King, did you ever lose what you cared for more than all the world?
Naggeneen, without making a bit of noise, scuttled down to the farthest corner of the hall. The others seemed not to know where to look or what to do or to think. Then the King turned toward them and said; "It's all over; we couldn't stay here now. Wherever has Naggeneen got to?" The fairies who were nearest to Naggeneen hustled him forward and he stood before the King again.
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