cried out, "Mama, mama, the gentleman has eat my little brother!"
This fortunate event put an end to the contest, the male line
entirely failing in the person of the devoured prince. The
archbishop, however, who became pope by the name of Innocent the
3d. having afterwards a son by his sister, named the child
Fitzpatrick, as having some of the royal blood in its veins; and
from him are descended all the younger branches of the Fitzpatricks
of our time. Now the rest of the acts of Grata and all that she
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Kilkenny?


NOTES ON TALE IV.

_This tale was written for Anne Liddel countess of Offory, wife of John
Fitzpatrick earl of Offory. They had a daughter Anne, the subject of
this story._

[Footnote 1: _Vide Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, in the family of
Fitzpatrick._]

[Footnote 2: _Queen Anne in her first speech to the parliament said, her
heart was entirely English._]

[Footnote 3: _Lady Offory had miscarried just then of two sons._]

[Footnote 4: _The housekeeper, as soon as lord Offory came home, wished
him joy of a son and heir, though both the children were born dead._]

[Footnote 5: _Some commentators have ignorantly supposed that the Irish