reading notes: more celtic tales part b

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there was a farmer who lost his wife and child. his plower also quit last minute. some man appeared looking for work and they agreed hed be paid as much as he could carry. he was slow to start and had an unusual method, but it worked. he nearly took all of the corn, but then his bag broke.

a king traded his family for a fairy branch that could make everyone happy. he waited a year and then sat off to find his family. along the way he passed some men doing things, all a metaphor for different types of people. he got his family back in the end.

there lived two brothers and the mother of the second was trying to poison the first, so her son would become king. her son found out and saved him. they bottled the poison drink and ran away. they were not sure if it was actually poison, so they gave it to the horse. he died, as did the other horse. then so did the twelve birds that ate the horse. the birds were made into pies, but then some robbers took them and died. the boys looted them and went to give the king a riddle for his daughters hand in marriage.

Story source: More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1895).

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