Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-03-04
THE GOOD AND THE BAD son
AFAIRY STORY AS TOLD BY BIDDY.


"An' it was once, long ago, in the ould
said Biddy, ''there was livin'
a foine, clane, honest poor wildly woman,
an she havin' two sons, an she fetched
the both Of 'em up foine and careful, but
one Of them turned out bad intirely. An
one day says she to him, says she:
"I've given you your livin' as long as
liver can, aud it's you must 90 out in
to the wide worruld to sake your fortune"
"Mother | win" he says.
"An' will We take big cake an me
curse, or little cake an me blessing ?"
says she.
"The big cake, sure" he says.
SO she baked big cake and cursed him
and he wint away laughin'. BY and by
he came forninst n spring in the woods,
and sat down to ate his dinner off the
cake, and a small little bird sat on the
edge of the spring.
"Give me bit of that cake for me lit
Ce ones in the nest" says she and he
caught up a stone TO threw at her.
"I've scarce enough for mcseIf," says
he, and She bein' fairy, put her bake
into the spring and turned it black as ink
and wint away up into the trees. And
while he looked for her to kill her, a fox
wint away wild his cake.
SO he wint away from that place very
mad, and mkt day he stopped very hoon.
CRY, at n farmers house, and hired out tC
tind the cows.
"Be wise" says the farmers wife, "lol
the next field is belongin' TO giant, anC
if the cows get into his clover he will Kill
you as dead as II shtone."
But the bad son laughed and wint away
out to watch the COWS, and before it was
noon-time he wint to sleep UP in tree
and the cows all wint into the clover, an
out comes the giant and shook him dowr
out of the tree an killed him dead an(
that was the ind of the bad one.
"And by the next year the poor wildly
woman, says she t. the good son:
80 Ye must go out into the wide wor-
ruld and sake your fortune, for l can
kapc YOU no longer says she.
"' Mother, will" says he.
"'An' will ye take a big cake wild me
curse, or a little cake wild me blessing {?
"'Thc little cake says lie.
" So she baked it for him and gave
him her blessin, an he wint away, she
a we pin, afther him foino and loud
An by and by he camo to the same spring
in the woods where the bad son was be
fore him, and the small, little bird Sc
again on the side Of it.
80 Give me bit of your cake for me
little ones in the nest says she.
al will, says he, an he broke her of
a Goino piece, and She dipped her cake
in the spIi1g and turned it into swce
wine; and when he bit his cake shurc
an she had toorncd 1t into fine plumb
ca iutr Iy; an he ate and drank and
wiut on ghhearted. And mkt lie comes
to the farmers house.
" win ye tind cows for me?' say.
the farmer,
" BE wsc,' says the farmers wife, 'fol
the clover field beyont is bolongin' to Tho
giant, an ifye let in the cows he wi
kin you dead
80 Never fear = says the good son
L don't slape at me worruk.'
"And he goe, out in the field and lugs
a ig stone up in the tree, and thin sind.
every COW far out in the clover-felds and
o.; b; elk ag'in to the tree. An out
comes the giant aroarn so you could hear
the roars OF him mile away and when
he finds the cowboy he goes under the
tree to shake him down, but the good
little son slips out the big stone, an il
fell down and broke the ginnt's head in.
tiie,y. SO the good son wint running
away to the giants house, it being full tc
to Il caves Of gold and diamonds ant
splndid things
: See what fine luck come to folks thar
COOL and honest AM he wint home
and te ched his old mother, an they livcd
r'ch and contntod, and died very old
and Iispictcd."