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033 - King O'Toole and His Goose · Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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  Speaker 1: Section thirty two of Fairy and Folk Tales of the
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  Speaker 1: Irish Peasantry. This is a LibriVox recording. All libervox recordings
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  Speaker 1: Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, edited and selected by W.
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  Speaker 1: B Eights. Section thirty two, King O'Toole and his Goose
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  Speaker 1: by s Lover Bigar. I thought, all the world fire
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  Speaker 1: and near here the King O'Toole. Well, well, but the
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  Speaker 1: darkness of mankind is untellable. Welter. You must know, as
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  Speaker 1: you didn't hear it afore, that there was a king
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  Speaker 1: called King O'Toole, who was the fine old king, king
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  Speaker 1: in the old ancient times long ago, and it was
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  Speaker 1: him that owned the churches in the early days. The king,
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  Speaker 1: you see, was the right sort. He was a real
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  Speaker 1: boy and loved sport as he loved his life, and
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  Speaker 1: hunting in particular. And from the rising of the sun,
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  Speaker 1: up he got, and away he went over the mountains
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  Speaker 1: beyond after the deer and the fine times them were well.
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  Speaker 1: It was almighty good as long as the king had
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  Speaker 1: his health But you see, in the course of time
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  Speaker 1: the king grew old by raisin, he was stiff in
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  Speaker 1: his limbs, and when he got stricken in years, his
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  Speaker 1: heart failed him and he was lost entirely from want
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  Speaker 1: to diversion. Because he couldn't go a hunting no longer
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  Speaker 1: and be dead, the poor king was obliged at last
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  Speaker 1: for to get a goose to divert them. You may
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  Speaker 1: laugh if you like, but it's truth I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 1: And the way the goose diverted him was this away.
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  Speaker 1: You see. The goose used for to swim across the
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  Speaker 1: lake and go diving for throat and catch fish on
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  Speaker 1: a Friday for the king, and flew every other day
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  Speaker 1: round the lake divert and the poor king all went
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  Speaker 1: on mighty well until bedad. The goose got stricken in
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  Speaker 1: years like her master and couldn't divert him no longer,
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  Speaker 1: And then it was that the poor king was last complete.
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  Speaker 1: The king was walking one morning by the edge of
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  Speaker 1: the lake, lamenting his cruel fate and thinking a drowning
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  Speaker 1: themselves that could get no diversion in life, when all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, turning round the corner beyond, who should
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  Speaker 1: he meet but a mighty dacent young man coming up
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  Speaker 1: to him. God save you, said the King to the
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  Speaker 1: young man. God save you, kindly, King O'Toole, said the
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  Speaker 1: young man. True for you, said the King. I am
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  Speaker 1: King O'Toole, says he, prince, and plenty penny tingly in
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  Speaker 1: these parts, says he. But how came ye to know that?
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  Speaker 1: Says he? Oh never mind, said Saint Kavin. You see
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  Speaker 1: it was Saint Kavin sure enough to saint himself in
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  Speaker 1: the skies and nobody else. Oh never minds he. I
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  Speaker 1: know more than that. May I make bold to act?
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  Speaker 1: How is your goose, King O'Toole, says he blurn naggers.
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  Speaker 1: How came ye to know about me goose? Said the king.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no matter, I was given to understand it, said
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  Speaker 1: Saint Kavin. After some more talk, the King said, what
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  Speaker 1: are you? I'm an honest man, said Saint Kavin. Well
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  Speaker 1: honest man, says the King. And how is it you
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  Speaker 1: make your money so easy by making old things as
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  Speaker 1: good as new? Said said Cavan. Is it a tinker
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  Speaker 1: you are, said the king. No, said the Saint, I'm
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  Speaker 1: no tinker. By tread King O'Toole, I've a better thread
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  Speaker 1: than a tinker, says he. What would you say, doth
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  Speaker 1: he if if I made your old goose as good
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  Speaker 1: as new? My dear, At the word o making his
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  Speaker 1: goose as good as new, you'd think the poor old
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  Speaker 1: king's eyes were rend to jump out of his head.
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  Speaker 1: With that, the king whistled, and down came the poor goose,
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  Speaker 1: all as wool as a hound, waddlin' up to the
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  Speaker 1: poor cripple her master, and as like him as two pays.
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  Speaker 1: The minute de Saint clapped eyes on the goose. I'll
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  Speaker 1: do the job for you, said he. King O'Toole be gemminy, said,
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  Speaker 1: King O'Toole. If you do, would, I'll say you're the
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  Speaker 1: cleverest fellow in the civil parishes. Oh be dead, said
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  Speaker 1: Saint Kavin. You must say moren or that my horn's
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  Speaker 1: not so soft all out, says he. As to repair
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  Speaker 1: your old goose for nothing? What you gim me if
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  Speaker 1: I do the job for you? That's the chat, said
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  Speaker 1: Saint Kavin. I'll give you whatever your axe, said the king.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that fair divil affair, said the saint. That's the
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  Speaker 1: way to do business, now, says he. This is the bargain.
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  Speaker 1: I'll make with you, King O'Toole, will you give me
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  Speaker 1: all the ground? The goose flies over the first offer.
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  Speaker 1: After I make her as good as new, I will,
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  Speaker 1: said the King. You won't go back on your world,
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  Speaker 1: says Saint Kavin. Honor bright, says King O'Toole, holding out
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  Speaker 1: his fist on a bright said Saint Kavin. Back again.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bargain. Come here, says he to the poor
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  Speaker 1: old goose. Come here, you unfortunate cripple, and it's I
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  Speaker 1: that'll make you the spartan bird. With that, me dear,
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  Speaker 1: he took up the goose by the two wings. Chris
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  Speaker 1: saw my crass on you, says he, makin her to
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  Speaker 1: grace with a blessed sighn at the same minute, and
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  Speaker 1: throwing her up into the air show. Said he just
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  Speaker 1: to give her a blash to help her. And with
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  Speaker 1: that medule she took to her heels, flyin like one
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  Speaker 1: of those eagles themselves, and cutting as many capers as
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  Speaker 1: a swallow before a shower of rain. Well, me, dear,
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  Speaker 1: it was a beautiful sight to see the King standing
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  Speaker 1: with his mouth open, looking at the poor old goose
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  Speaker 1: flyin as light as a lark, and better nor ever
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  Speaker 1: she was. And when she lit at his foot, patted
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  Speaker 1: her on the head, and my wornen, says he. But
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  Speaker 1: you are the darland the world. And what do you
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  Speaker 1: say to me, says Saint Kavin, for makin her the
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  Speaker 1: like bigar, said the King. I say nothing baits the
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  Speaker 1: artam man, barren the bees. And YE say no more
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  Speaker 1: nor that, says Saint Kavin. And that I'm beholden to you,
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  Speaker 1: said the king. But will you give me all the
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  Speaker 1: ground the goose flew over, says Saint Kavin. I will,
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  Speaker 1: said the King, And you're welcome to it, says he.
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  Speaker 1: So it's the last acre I have to give. But
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  Speaker 1: you'll keep your word through, said the saint. As through
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  Speaker 1: as the sun, says the King. It's well for you, King,
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  Speaker 1: o'too that you say that word, says he, For if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't say that word, the devil were saved. The
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  Speaker 1: bitterer goose did ever fly again When the king was
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  Speaker 1: as good as his word. Saint Kavin was playing with him,
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  Speaker 1: and did it while that he made himself known to
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  Speaker 1: the king. And he says, King O'Toole, you're a dacent man,
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  Speaker 1: for I only came here to try you. You don't
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  Speaker 1: know me, says he, because I'm disguised. Mushaizin, said the king.
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  Speaker 1: Who are you? I'm Saint Caavin, said the saint, blessing himself,
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  Speaker 1: O queen of Heaven, said the King, making the signs
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  Speaker 1: of the craft between his eyes and falling down on
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  Speaker 1: his knees before the saint. Is it a great saint Caven?
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  Speaker 1: Says he that I've been discoursing all this time without
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  Speaker 1: knowing it, says he. All is won as if he
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  Speaker 1: was a lump of a good soon. And so you're
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  Speaker 1: a saint, said the King. I am, said Saint Kavin.
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  Speaker 1: Bigar I thought I was only talking to a dacent pye,
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  Speaker 1: said the king. Well you know the differ now, said
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  Speaker 1: the saint. I'm Saint Kavin, says he the greatest of
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  Speaker 1: all the same. And so the king had his goose
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  Speaker 1: as good as new to dive out from as long
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  Speaker 1: as he lived, and the saint supported him after he
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  Speaker 1: came into his property, as I told ye, until the
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  Speaker 1: day of his death, and that was soon after. For
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  Speaker 1: the poor goose thought he was catchin a throut one friday,
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  Speaker 1: But me duel, it was a mistake he made and
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  Speaker 1: instead of a throut, it was a Thievin horse eel
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  Speaker 1: and bigar instead of the goose killin a throut for
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  Speaker 1: the king's supper bedad the eel killed the king's goose,
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  Speaker 1: and small blame to him, but he didn't eater because
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  Speaker 1: he darn'd ate what Saint Kevin laid his blessed hands on.
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  Speaker 1: End of section thirty two. Recording by achm