The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-17
AN IRISH LEGEND
That Concerns Spring. Just Outside
 Cork.
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l COFk.
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 green of Cork, and just outside the town, there is 8. great tough of water, l where people go a-p1easuring. But
 the sport above the water is nothing
 to what is under it, for at the very
 bottom of this Iough there are build ings and gardens far more beautiful than any now to be seen. And how 1 they came there was in this manner: Long, lone ago there was a great
 king called Core whose palace stood
 where the lough now it It was in a 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 oI1ri-
 in crowds from far and near to draw the precious water, until at last the king feared that his wonderful sprdng might become dry.
 So he had q high wall built round 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 key of the well, 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 nobles were present.
 Now there was present at the feast, among others, one young prince who was very handsome Right merrily did The dance with the kings daughter, and the musicians played the better for seeing their dancing. ssss.@. | At supper the 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 ito King Korc, May 1t please your majesty, here lis
 everything in abundance that heart can wish for, both to eat and drink ex-
 cept water
 sFWaterg, said the king, nightly pleased at some one calling for that which he had purposeIy left out. 'Wa- ter you shall have, my lord 2 said he, s.and speedily. And it shall be of such a delicious kind that challenge all the world to equal 1t Daughter" he added, Ego 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 menial 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 for what he had asked her to do- But having said the word he was never known to recall it. He therefore thought of way to make his daugh- ter go speedily and fetch the water
 Daughter, ,'' he said, -sI do not won der at your fearing to go alone so late at night. But I 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 king s daughter out of the hall so gracefully that all the other princes and nobles gazed after them with admiration When the two came to the spring of water in the court yard of the palace, the Princess Usga- unlocked the door with great care.
 But as she stopped down with the ter out Of the well the vessel proved so heavy that the princess lost her bal ance and fell in.
 The young prince tried 4n vain to save her, but the imprisoned water rose and rose so fast that the entire court yard was SpeSO4Ays CoNStSo WALtA it. and the prince hastened back, in great terror, to the king.
 The door of the well being left open, the water which had been so long con- fined, rejoiced at being free and rush.
 ed forth in great volumes, every mo- ment rising higher, so that it had reached the hall of entertainment all most before the prince himself arrived. And by the time he had reached the
 kings side it was to neck in water. It was but a very short time before the water rose to such 8 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 1 drowned. Neither was his daughter, the fair Usga, who returned to the 4anouet hall the very night after this
 dreadful event
 And every night since the same en- 1 tertafnment and dance go on in the palace at the bottom of the lough, and 1 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
 1 Nobody can doubt that it was a 1 judgment upon the king for shutting l up the well in the court yard from the poor people
 i If there are any who do not believe
 this story, they may go and see the
 tough of Core, for there it is to be seen 1 this day. The road to Kinsa1e passes at one side of it. When the waters are l low and clear, the tops of towers and hstately buildings may be plainly view
 ed in the bottom by those who have
 good eyesight, without the help of
 spectac1es.