Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 3)
- Date
- 1937–1938
- Collector
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- (continued from previous page)reward - (the hand of the Princess) how the only trace they had of the strange man was the slipper which the Princess had snatched off his foot. He told how the King had made a proclamation to the assembled people that he was giving a banquet next night in honour of the man who saved his daughter. To this banquet every householder had sworn to bring every person of his household and my means of the slipper he would try to find out at the banquet the man who killed the dragon.
The master told Jack that he would have to go to the banquet next night. Jack said "Where I am concerned there is no have to and besides that slipper may fit several people."
Next day Jack went off with his herd, but before he went the Master told him that he would have to tell the King that he had refused to go in order to fulfil his promise to take the who household. Jack took no(continues on next page)