When the
young lord came in he hardly looked up, till he saw a chair close up to
him, and asked him: "Pray, sir, had you not once a young daughter whom
you would never see or own?"
The old gentleman said: "It is true; I am a hardened sinner. But I
would give all my worldly goods if I could but see her once before I
die." Then the young lord told him what had happened to Catskin, and
took him to the inn, and brought his father-in-law to his own castle,
where they lived happy ever afterwards.
Stupid's Cries
There was once a little boy, and his mother sent him to buy a sheep's
head and pluck; afraid he should forget it, the lad kept saying all the
way along:
"Sheep's head and pluck!
Sheep's head and pluck!"
Trudging along, he came to a stile; but in getting over he fell and hurt
himself, and beginning to blubber, forgot what he was sent for. So he
stood a little while to consider: at last he thought he recollected it,
and began to repeat:
"Liver and lights and gall and all!
Liver and lights and gall and all!"
Away he went again, and came to where a man had a pain in his liver,
bawling out:
"Liver and lights and gall and all!
Liver and lights and gall and all!"
Whereon the man laid hold of him and beat him, bidding him say:
"Pray God send no more!
Pray God send no more!"
The youngster strode along, uttering these words, till he reached a
field where a hind was sowing wheat:
"Pray God send no more!
Pray God send no more!"
This was all his cry.
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