The yellow fairy book . had put herthere. I shall tell you that, said she. I am an enchanted Princess,and my father has promised that the man whoreleases mo fromthe spell shull have the third of his kingdom while lie is alive, andthe whole of it after lie is dead, and many mo as well. If ever Lfiaw a man who looked likely to do this, you a,v the one. I havebeen here for sixteen years now, and no cme who • ver came t thecastle ha , me who I was, except yourself. K\ery other manthat has come, so long as I have been here, lies asleep in the bigroom down there. Tell me, then, said the Irish
The yellow fairy book . had put herthere. I shall tell you that, said she. I am an enchanted Princess,and my father has promised that the man whoreleases mo fromthe spell shull have the third of his kingdom while lie is alive, andthe whole of it after lie is dead, and many mo as well. If ever Lfiaw a man who looked likely to do this, you a,v the one. I havebeen here for sixteen years now, and no cme who • ver came t thecastle ha , me who I was, except yourself. K\ery other manthat has come, so long as I have been here, lies asleep in the bigroom down there. Tell me, then, said the Irishman, what is the spell that ••been laid on you, and how you can be freed from it. There is a little room there, snid the Irince , • ami if 1 could 258 THE BLUE MOUNTAINS get a man to stay in it from ten oclock till midnight for three nightson end I should be freed from the spell. I am the man for you, then, said he ; I will take on hand todo Thereupon she brought him a pipe and tobacco, and he went. into the room; but before long he heard a hammering and knockingon the outside of the door, and was told to open it I wont, he said. The next moment the door came flying in, and those outsidealong with it. They knocked him down, and kicked him, and knelton his body till it came to midnight; but as soon as the cock crewthey all disappeared. The Irishman was little more than alive THE BLUE MOUNTAINS 259 by this time. As soon as daylight appeared the Princess came, andfound him lying full length on the floor, unable to speak a took a bottle, rubbed him from head to foot with somethingfrom it, and thereupon he was as sound as ever; but after whathe had got that night he was very unwilling to try it a secondtime. The Princess, however, entreated him to stay, saying thatthe next night would not be so bad, and in the end he gave in andstayed. When it was getting near midnight he heard them orderinghim to open the door, and there were three of them for every onethat th
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