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Updated: May 19, 2025
Money, he was told, was the surest way of getting acquainted with the king, and so he began saving until he had put together a few hogs, but Owney-na-peak, finding where he had hid them, seized on the whole, as he used to do on all young Owney's earnings.
Indeed, many said that the judges of the land themselves could not have answered better, had they been in Owney's place; nor could there be anywhere found a more likely or well-spoken young man. He was brought first to the king, who took him in his arms, and presented him to the princess. She could not help acknowledging to herself that his understanding was quite worthy of his handsome person.
One evening young Owney's mother found herself about to die, so she called her son to her bedside and said to him: 'You have been a most dutiful good son, and 'tis proper you should be rewarded for it. Take this china cup to the fair, there is a fairy gift upon it, use your own wit, look about you, and let the highest bidder have it and so, my white-headed boy, God bless you!
Erra, let us see 'em, maybe you would? He took the cash from Owney's hand, and after opening his eyes in great astonishment at the sight of so much money, he put them into his pocket. 'Well, Owney, I'll keep them safe for you, in my pocket within. But tell us, maybe you would, how come you to get such a mort o' money for an old cup o' painted chaney, that wasn't worth, maybe, a fi'penny bit?
So he made a sign to Owney-na-peak to be silent, or talk of something else; at which the cat turned away her eyes, and began washing her face, quite simple, with her two paws, looking now and then sideways into Owney's face, just like a Christian.
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