DON’T. They waited till he came up, and then saluted him

KNOW with the profoundest respect, and inquired if that
he would hunt with them that day. He replied
that he had already done his hunting, and he
showed a gold fawn that he had killed.
When the princes saw this, they were mad set to
have the fawn, and they begged him to let them
have it; but he said he would give it up only on
condition that they each allowed him to brand
them on the back with something.
Well—they were so set on having the gold fawn
that they agreed, and he burned on their backs
the symbol of a pair of gallows. Then he rode
home, and had changed everything before they
arrived; and when they came, they bragged about
ee AuOuee. and showed the gold fawn they had

illed.

‘You couldn’t do this, could you, brother-in-law ?’
they asked. He only replied from the door of the
potato-shed: ‘Don’t know.’
Now it happened that the great King Cuckoo of
Ireland, who had been subject to the King of
England, was so set on being independent, and
even of subjugating England, that he gathered a
great army, and came over and marched against
London. The king sent out an army to oppose
his advance under one of his sons-in-law, but it
was defeated; then he sent another under the
second, and that was defeated also. So now the
king gathered together all the remnant of his
forces, and determined to take the field in person,
he would command the centre, and each of his
sons-in-law the wings. The two princes went to
the potato-shed, and said: ‘Come on, brother-in- -
law, the land is in danger, you must fight as well
as we.’
‘Don’t know,’ answered Dan.
‘Don’t you know how to handle bow or spear ?’
‘Don’t know.’

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