The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
DrcHerieS Of DONEGAL.
Series of Irish Folk Stories. By Seumas MacManus

on Jack, employed him as boy And
Jack was getting along very we'll al
coort. and the king and him used To
have very great yarns together entirely
I AT length a great war broke out be-
twiXt France and Rooshia and the king
of France was in great trouble, for the
RooshinS were Strengthening sand con-
quering all before them. Says Jack
says he, to the king one day: Il wish /
had only half a ragimint of your men
| and you'd see what l would do" In
stead of this the king gave him a whole
| division, and in three days there WASH [
a Rooshin alive in the whole kingdom
of France. 1t was the king was the
! thankful man to Jack for this good ac-
! ton, and said he could never forget il
to him. After that Jack got into great
! favor at court, and used to have long
! chats with the queen herself. But Jack
soon found that he never could come
| into the queens presence that he didn't
put her in tears. He aXed her one day
what was the meaning of this, and she
told him that it was bekase she never
| looked on him that he didn't put her in
mind of her infant son that had. twelve
months before, been carried away by
the Queen of the Golden Mines, ana
who she had never heard tale or tidings
of from that day TO this. We'll, be this
and be that" says Jack, says he, but
I'm not the man to leave you in your
trouble if l can help it; and be this and
be that over again says he, but /
won't sleep two nights in one bed or eat
two meals in one house till L find out
the Queen of the Golden Mines castle,
and fetch back your infant son TO ye-
or else I'll not come back Twin" All,
says the queen. that would never do.
and All says the king. that would
never do at all, at all. They pointed
out and showed to him how hundred
great knights had gone on the same
arrant before him. and not an individ-
ual of them ever come back living, and
there was no use in him throwing away
his life, for they couldn't afford TO lose
him. But it was all no use; Jack was
bound on going. and go he would So
the very next morning he was up at
cock-crow, and after leavin' goodby
with the whole of them. and leavin' the
king and the queen in tears. he started
on his journey. And he travelled away
afore him, inquiring his way to the cas-
tie of the Queen of the Golden Mines;
and he Travelled and tramped for many
a weary day and for many a weary
week, and for many weary month,
till at last, when ii was drawing on
twelve months from the day he left the
castle of the King of France, one day
tors't evening he was travelling through
thick wood, when he fell in with an
old man, resting with a great bundle
of sticks by his side; and Me poor Guild
man." says Jack, saws he, that's
mighty great load entirely for a poor
man of your years to be carrying. Sure,
if yen allow me, I'll just take them
with me, for We. as far as you're go
in ''Bissins on ye," says the ould
man: an an ould mans blissins atop
of that; an thanky." "Nebbut, thanky
yerself, for yer good wishes" says Jack
says he. THROWN the bundle of sticks
on his shoulder, an marchin' on by the
oud mans side. And they Travelled
away through the wood till they come
at last to the Ould mans cabin. And
the ould man aXed Jack to come in for
the night and such poor accommoda-
tons as he had Jack was welcome to
them. Jack thanked him and went in
and put up for the night with him, and
in the morning Jack told the ould man
the errand he was on, and axed him If
he'd direct him on his way TO the
Queen of the Golden Mines castle.
Then the ould man took out Jack
and showed him a copper castle glanc-
ing in the sun. on a hill opposite.
and told him that was his jour
neys end. But, my poor man.
saws he. Il would strongly advise We
not to go next or near It, a hundred
knights went there afore you on the |
self-same errand, and their heads are I
now stuck on a hundred spears right |
afore the castle; for there's a fiery /
dragon guards it that makes short |
work of the best of them" But seeing |
Jack wasn't to be persuaded off his en- I
therprise nohoW, he took him in and |
gave him a sword that carried two /
mems strength in it along with that of |
the man that welded ii. And told Jack 4
if he was alive again night, and not /
\ ~ s1r1r acrr,r1 To n
his cabin. Jack thanked him for the |
sword. and promised this, and then he |
set out for the castle. But To- and be-
hold yei no sooner did Jack come anear
he castle than a terrible great big mon
sther of a dhragon entirely, the widest
ever Jack seen or head tell OF. come
,ut from the castle and he opened his
mouth as wide as the castle gates and
ct a roar that there never was any
hunder to equal, and that could be
leard 800 miles away. Poor Jack thrim-
lied from head to foot. And small Won
Ter he debut not bit daunted. he
vent on TO meet the dhragon and no
-ooner were they met than he to 1t and
he dhragon to it, and they fought and
throve long and hard, the widest fight
" far that poor Jack ever entered into.
nd they fought that way from early
nornin' till the sun went down, at one
ime Jack seemin' to be gettin' the bet
her of the dhragon, and the next min
tie the dhragon gettin' the betther of
ack: and when tine sun went down
hey called a truce of PAIGE till next
ay. and Jack dragged himself back to
he cabin in small hopes Of being able to
neet the dhragon more. for he was COW ;
red over with wounds from head to
cot But when he got to the cabin the
uld man welcomed him back alive. and ,
e took down a little bottle of ointment ;
nd rubbed it over Jack, and no sooner
id he rub il over HIM than Jacks I
POUNDS were all lealed as well as I
yer again. And Jack went out new
ian the next mornin' to give the 5
hragon another try for it this day. I