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1. The Laughing Knights' Island Folktale (continued)

   

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   your will my beautiful Queen, is my pleasure. ''
   So they shook hands, and stepped into her chair, and almost flew over the waves out of view.
   Jack called with Green Sleive, who wanted him to stay with him for the rest of his life, but Jack was determined on going home to fill his mother's hand with gold, as he had promised.
   So as the Laughing Knight gave his three laughs, the pigs' ears vanished and the green scum went off his eyes, all his bad temper and cruelty left him, and the shining horse was as quiet as any other horse. It was under a spell by the old witch too.
   '' Well Jack I would love to keep you forever for all you did, for me than all the men in the world could do. '' So he handed Jack his crown of gold, and a bag of gold along with it.
   So he started for home.
   He was three days on his way home. He was getting hungry on the forth day, as he neard his own old sack, Mona. His mother was out feeding her flock of hens. When she saw Jack coming near the house in his suit of gold lace cloth.
   Mona ran into the house,
   '' Oh Diarmuid by this and by that
   here comes a leprecaun or a fairy,
   and what will we do? ''
   '' Begorra I don't know '' says Diarmuid, '' but let me

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   B. O Grady

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan