The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-17

d $ N H s fairy story about Shaun and Fiona" % IN@Ea a& I might we'll be candid. I had w shamelessly taken Jimmy down to k v X Coney Island n order that he might
 tell one of the fairy stories his now after having had bath we were basking in tho kindly rays of the sun on comparatively se warmed up to the point where story was the most natural thing in the world.
 if | am not mistaken the story that Jimmy told me Is an Irish variant of folk tale of Brittany which read when boy myself ed t ,ta that that lure of Irish and New York local color, it's shift lpo of mudder 'a anything but Breton in it's flavor
 the son Il Of king a said Jimmy I q can't re remem- her tfe name of th old man, but him an his peo- any kings Very proud. me mudder said they was, stWeil, Shaun was a fine young feller, very smart an' needin' no book learnin' at all
 We'll one day he took it into his head he'd go seek his fortune beyond the seven seas that SUI 7 hand an he goes to his father, the king-l can't peonie hane s been great an ever since there was any kings at all, an am great an powerful because I'm the son of you but I'll not be leanin' that at all. want to walk be me self It's me own way I'd make. an all ! ask is ass snougn 9sq he young man of his age he had killed tree lions at In Ireland. father?, says the young man, an his father says. Yes an that makes Shaun wink his eye at th old man because he knew % tn there was snakes but he knew the old gentleman was husky enough an if it wasn't lions, # was something else just as fierce, an he sets out wid the blessin.
 eNothin stopped him. The first day of his jour- neys he come some robbers wid bags full of gold,s an when they about to ask him for his ! wad he sticks his sword through the bag of gold and t streams out on the ground. Then he Tdns said an seein' lot of beggars in field near at hand he calls then up an % he says. Here fa help never could understan dat, boss. Leavin' gold N sWhen he comes to the seven seas that surround Ireland, he looks for boat to take him away. Me mndder used to say that this was before the time very few of them but at last he sees fisherman in boat an he tells him that he is Prince shaun 70 of pame of his father. Me mudder always said it ev- cry time an yet II can't call it, at all
 sThe fisherman when he hears his name bows low an tells him he can command him till rocks stor singin hoarse-rooks is like crows, boss-an
 He'd often heard of America, so me mudder said an he gets in the boat an stif wind springs up ant they sail fast that in half an hour he 2 couldn't see land at all.
 | All night be the light of a moon that was all most bright as the sun. but as thin as thread. they sailed, an at last Shaun sees big body of 5 land in front of them an he asks is it America.
 st II don't know what land it is,' the f1sher- man. turnin' white, 'an don't like the look of it. stop the boat says he But when he tried d. to ,o was runaway horse an the next minute 1t strikes rock an the fisherman an his boat disappears but Shaun pitches head first into furze bush. It some time before he felt strong enough to pick himself out of the bush an go to see what sort 0f
 While he was walkin' an wonderin, where breakfast was comin' from. he came to house that der tellin' me that, an it supposed to be a gants house shaun had never seen 1.-the the II like Sa or York and some of the skyscrapers
 1 Tt was g giants house. all right. for out of the top window great head is put, bead as large E aa the big dinner table in the house of shaun's fatheE an great voice roars so hard that every breath. Ans he says to shaun. Ahow dare you step An, Shaun says: How dare you talk to me in voice like thatf I am shaun of the house of Macculin-that,s the name couldn't get. M. Mac want you to come down an' invite me m to oreak-
 -Oh, he was not frightened of the giants at all He knew most of these big. fellers is buffers. < x ssPretty soon z door as large as the side of a hand for he was we'll hammered. me mudder said, walks in an looks around him. All he sees is a an way . hayseed would look at the Singer buildin', an there is the giant lookin' down at him..
 tAThe next minute big hand comes down an shaun is lifted up in the air. an feels like he's gon' up in an elevator.
 But he wasn't frightened at all. Set me down on the root says be. T don't want to be pinched between thumb an finger like bug says he. Tnn a prince So the giant sets him on the roof. Me mudder said that the roof was all open the giant could up straight an it was on the top
 well says the giant you at the right time. Me servant died yesterday from fallin' in the way of me foot. an need new one at once .rm lookin for me fortune,' says Shaun. 'an' If T become your servant says he, fits not because have to- but because want to do it for the sport of the thing Oh he a brave lad: Not afraid of anything on legs.
 T don't care why you work but you'll work hard I'll tell you that I'm off to milk me double headed COW, an while I'm gone you must clean the stable. When that is done you may rest, until come back, an then we'll ate dinner together. you an me- But remember one thing. Don't go to the room that is locked on the twenty-hfth hoor for there I keep wives.
 Where is the key?' asked Shaun, but the giant only laughed at him an went out to milk his two headed
 sAfter the giant had gone Shaun looked out of the window an' saw where the stable was: oh ho that's an aisy job,' says be- an he decides to prowl around the house first, because he never was In a house high, an besides, he wanted to see what was in the room the twenty-hfth floor