The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-22

The Amadan thanked her, parted
with her and Travelled away and away
before him until he reached the hill
which she had told him Of. And when
he came there he saw a great cloud
that shot out of the sky, descending on
the hill, and when it came down on the
! hill and melted away there it left the
standing, and between his legs the
Amadan saw the whole world and
nothing over his head.
And with roar and run the Beg
| garman made for the Amadan, and the
roar of him ratified the stars in the
/ sky.
He asked the Amadan who he was
and what he had done to have the i'm
Dudence to come there and meet him
He said; ''They call me the Amadan
of the Dough, and 1 have killed Stat
Nor, Stat MARI, Stat Beag, the Cailli-
ach of the Rocks, and her four Bad
achs, the Black Bull of the Brown
Wood, and the White Wether of the
Hill of the Waterfalls, and before night
I'll have killed the Beggarman of the
king of Sweden
That you never WILL you miserable
| object" says the Beggarman. You're
going to die now, and I'll give your
choice to die either by a hard squeeze
of wrestling or a stroke of the sword. &"
Well says the Amadan, eff I have
to die I'd sooner die by a stroke of the
! sword"
'AlI right" says the Beggarman, and
drew his sword.
But the Amadan drew his sword at
the same time, and both went to it.
And if his fights before had been hard
this one was harder and greater and
more terrible than the others put to-
gether They made the hard ground
into soft, and the soft into spring
wells; they made the rocks into peb-
bles, and the pebbles into gravel, and
the gravel fell over the country like
hailstones. All the birds of the air from
the lower end of the world to the upper
end of the world, and all the wild
beasts and tame from the four ends of
the earth came flocking to see the
fight, and at length the fight was put
ting so hard upon the Beggarman, and
he was getting so weak that he WhiS-
tied, and the mist came around him
and he went up into the sky before the
Amadan knew. He remained there I'M
til he refreshed himself, and then came
down again, and at it again he went
for the Amadan. and fought harder and
harder than before, and again it was
putting too hard on him, and he whis
tied as before for the mist to come
down and take him I'D.
But the AmadanI remembered what
the red woman had warned him: he
gave one leap into the cr, and, coming
down, drove his sword through the
Beggarman's heart, and the Beggar-
man fell dead.
But before he died he put geasa on
the Amadan to meet and fight the
Silver Cat of the Seven Glens.
The Amadan rubbed his wounds with
the iocshlainte and he was as fresh
and hale as when he had begun the
fight, and then he set out, and when
night was falling he reached the hut
that had no shelter within or without,
only one feather over it, and the rough
red woman was standing in the door.
Right glad she was to see the ANA
dan coming back alive. and she well
coined him right heartily and asked
him the news.
He told her that he had killed the
Beggarman, and said he was now under
geasa to meet and fight the Silver Cat
of the Seven Glens.
''Well,' she said, I'm sorry for you,
for no one ever before went to meet
the Silver Cat and came back alive.
But" she says, you're both tired and
hungry; come in and rest and sleep"
So in the Amadan went and had a
hearty supper and a soft bed and in
the morning she called him up early