The Democratic advocate., 1902-02-01
nct tn her and take themselves off.

anyhow, and the Queen saw that these
French doctors had been no good to him,
so she decided that she would let the great
Irish doctor try, even though he was rag
ged.
every well, says the little red chap,
says he. ''Let me and my master be
E,locked in with the King in his room for an
IDur, and leave with us fine big pot OF
water IF at the end of an hour we
haven the King cured you can have our
heads. .
That was very fair so the Queen consent
Led, aud the two of them were locked up
with the King and the pot of water. And
as soon as they were the wee red chap or
ders Carrowagh to sharpen a knife and go
over and cut the King head off Which
he did, and then put it into the pot. And
they put the pot of water on the fire and
began to boil it, and as the water boiled
the wee lad made Carrowagh stir the
head round and round, and when the wee
red chap considered that the head was well
enough done he told Carrowagh to take
it out and to stick it on to the Kings body.
And when he stuck it on to the King the
King was better than ever he had been in
his life afore. And when the door was
opened and the Queen came bursting in
the King was sitting up and dressed, and
hail and hearty and he threw his arms
about her and kissed her all over. And
instead of one bag of gold my brave Car
rowagh got two.
And after he had been feasted well and
well he sat out for home again with his two
bags of gold, and the wee red chap carry
ing them.
They travelled for three days and three
nights, but somehow, when Carrowagh
found himself such rich man he got miser-
ly all at once, and he didn' give himself
nor the wee red fellow very much to eat,
SO that the wee red fellow was tired and
tired enough carrying the two bags of gold
| for him.
And ON the third day the wee red fellow
showed Carrowagh his shoes, and showed
him that his feet were coming out through
| them.
"Carrowagh, says he, ''my feet are
sore and tired, and l wish you d buy me a
new pair of shoes y
"Tll do nc such thing, says Caro-
wagh, says he "Those shoes will do you
grand till we get home. "
The wee fellow begged and prayed that
he would get him the shoes, but it was all
of no use, Carrowagh wouldn't spend that
much money on him.
"All right" says the wee fellow, says
he, throwing the two bags of gold on his
back. ''Good-by to ye, = and he started
off and left Carrowagh.
Carrowagh, now that he had his two
bags of gold, was no way uneasy anyhow,
and he was just as glad to get rid of the
wee fellow. So he never even looked after
him.
That night, when Carrowagh stopped al
a house and put his hand to the bag to gel
money to pay for his lodgings, behold ye,
what does he draw out only handful oi
pebbles, and then he caught hold of the
two bags by the lower corners and spill
them on the floor, and there he had only
two big heaps of wee pebble stones. AND
sorry man was Carrowagh then to see how
bad and cruel he had been to the poor wet
chap who had earned him all this money
And he cried in spite Of himself, and sale
it was his rich deserts, anyhow.
After that, he travelled away, on and OF
before him, taking pick here and picl
there from every one that was charitable
as he went on his way, till he came t.
England. And when he came there tn,
word was a-fying through the whole o
England that the King of England was fo
death, and though all the great doctors o
the world had tried their hands on him
he was still getting worse every day, ant
would be dead in three days more unles:
for miracle And it was given out, too
that any doctor who would cure him would
get his weight in gold.
And when Carrowagh heard this he wal
a glad man, and little grass he let grow
under his heels till he was at the King oi
England 8 castle When he ratified th'
gates, and the soldiers came out and asked
him what he wanted, and he told them
they were for driving him off and beating
him, for the likes of him to come and pu
up to be doctor and undertake to clir'
the King of England.
The Queen, she was looking out of th,
window, and she sent out and inquiret
what was the matter and what was tn,
hubbub about.
They told her it was ragged good-for
nothing looking fellow from Donegal, VIII
was putting himself up to be great doc
tor and proposing to cure the King.
She sent out word to them to bring hin
in, for she saw that all the great doctor
had tried their hand on the King withou
doing any good, and she said if this lad di
no good he couldn't anyhow do any harm
so he might as well have his try as th'
next.
Then Carrowagh said he wanted to bt
locked up with the King for one hour, h
wanted good fire in the room, a pot o
water and good sharp knife. And a
the end of the hour he said he would hav
the King better than ever he had been.
Right enough, they gave him all h
wanted and locked him up with the King
When Carrowagh found himself alone wit
the King he took up the knife and triet
its edge, then he went over and cut o.
the head of the King and put it into th
pot and put the pot on the fire to boil
And as the pot boildsd he stirred the head
But the half of an hour or quarter 0
and hour was not hardly up when the hea
was melted away in the pot and trace no
track of it WASH to be seen, and there m
poor Carrowagh was in fix.
Down he sat and began to cry, for h
saw that he would lose his life now anyho'
when they would come in at the end c
the hour and find what he had done to tn
King. 1t was small sparings they woul
give him. He would be hung and draw
and quartered, he knew.
There he was, sitting and rocking him
self back and forward and crying, when a
at once he hears voice that he though
he knew, saying "WeI, Carrowagh
what's the matter with you p
Up he lifts his eyes and there he see
the little red chap standing besides him
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