chair in the supper-room to-night."

"It shall be done," said the gray old fellow.

Then the King of Ireland's Son mounted his horse and rode away

His hound at his heel,
His hawk on his wrist;
A brave steed to carry him whither he list,
And the green ground under him,

and he went back to the Castle. That night a brown bear, holding a burning
coal in his mouth, came into the supper-room and stood between Caintigern the
Queen and the chair that belonged to her. None of the servants could drive it
away, and when Maravaun, the King's Councillor, came he said, "This is an
enchanted creature also, and it is best for us to leave it alone." So the
whole company went and left the brown bear in the supper-room seated 'in the
Queen's chair.



II


The next morning when he wakened the King's Son said, "That was a wonderful
thing that happened last night in the supper-room. I must go off and play a
third game with the gray old fellow who sits on a heap of stones at the turn
of the road." So, in the morning early he mounted and rode away

His hound at his heel,