Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-12-10
GREAT KING C0RC
Owned World Renowned Spring
Near Famous Town.
Sights to Be Seen Today by Pleasure
Seekers in Lough Alongside Old
Road to KinsaIe Near One Of
Erin's Famous Cities.

A little way beyond the gallows
green of Cork, and just outside the
town, there is great Tough of water,
where people go a-pleasuring. But the
sport above the water is nothing to
what is under it, for at the very bot
tom of this Tough there are buildings
and gardens far more beautiful than
any now to be seen. And, says the
Brooklyn Eagle, how they came there
was in this manner:
Long, long ago there was a great
king, called Core, whose palace stood
where the Tough now is. 1t was in
round green valley that was just
mile about.
In the middle of the courtyard was
a spring of fair water, SO pure and
so clear that it was the wonder of the
world. The king thought a great deal
of this spring that was such a Curl
osity within his palace. People came
in crowds from far and near to draw
the precious water, until at last the
king feared that his wonderful spring
might become dry.
So he had a high wall built around
it, and he would allow nobody to have
the water. This was a great loss to
the poor people who lived round about.
The king had an only daughter, and
sometimes he used to give her the
keep of the we'll, for he could never
trust his servants to fetch him the
precious water.
One night the king gave a great
feast, at which many princes and lords
and mobiles were present.
Now there was present at the feast,
among others, one young prince who
was very handsome. Right merrily
did he dance with the kings daughter,
and the musicians played the better
for seeing their dancing.
At supper this young prince sat
next to the kings daughter, and she
smiled upon him as often as he spoke
to her.
In the midst of the banquet one of
the great lords said to King Core,
MAY it please your majesty, here is
everything in abundance that the
heart can wish for both to eat and
drink, except water"
''Water!" said the king, nightly
pleased at some one calling for that
which he had purposely left out. "Wa-
ter you shall have, my lord" said he,
"and speedily. And it shall be Of such
a delicious kind that I challenge all
the world to equal it. Daughter" he
added, $50 fetch some in the golden
vessel which I caused to be made for
the purpose"
The kings daughter was called Flor
Usga, which in English means spring
water She did not much like to be
told to do such mental work as fetch
ing water before so many grand peo-
pie. But she dared not actually refuse
to obey the commands of her father.
Still she hesitated, and looked down
upon the ground.
The king, who loved his daughter
very much, seeing this, was sorry for
what he had asked her to do.
Daughter he said, 81 do not won
der at your fearing to go alone SO late
at night But l doubt not the young
prince at your side will go with YOU"
The prince was pleased at hearing
this. Taking the golden vessel in one
hand, with the other he led the kings
daughter out of the hall so gracefully
that all the other princes and mobiles
gazed after them with admiration.
When the two came to the spring of
water in the courtyard of the palace,
the Princess Usga unlocked the door
with great care.
But as she stopped down with the
golden vessel to take some of the wa
ter out of the we'll the vessel proved so
heavy that the princess lost her bal
ance and fell in.
The young prince tried in vain to
save her, but the imprisoned water
rose and rose so fast that the entire
courtyard was speedily covered with
it, and the prince fastened back, in
great terror, to the king.
The door of the we'll being left open,
the water which had been so long con-
fined rejoiced at being free, and rushed
forth in great volume, every moment
rising higher, so that it was reached
the hall of entertainment almost be-
fore the prince himself arrived. And
by the time he had reached the kings
side he was to his neck in water.
1t was but very short time before
the water rose to such a height that
1t filled the entire green valley in
which the kings palace stood, and so
the present Tough of Core was formed.
Yet the king and his guests were not
drowned Neither was his daughter,
the fair Usga, who returned to the
banquet hall the very night after this
dreadful event
And every night since the same en-
tertainment and dance go on in the
palace at the bottom of the Tough, and
they will last until some one has the
pluck to bring up out of it the golden
vessel which was the cause of all the
mischief.
Nobody can doubt that it was a
judgment upon the king for shutting
up the we'll in the courtyard from the