Celtic Fairy Tales by Unknown
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the roadside.
"Let's go in," said Hudden; "I'm dead beat. It's heavy he is for the little he had to eat." If Hudden was willing, so was Dudden. As for Donald, you may be sure his leave wasn't asked, but he was lumped down at the inn door for all the world as if he had been a sack of potatoes. "Sit still, you vagabond," said Dudden; "if we don't mind waiting, you needn't." Donald held his peace, but after a while he heard the glasses clink, and Hudden singing away at the top of his voice. "I won't have her, I tell you; I won't have her!" said Donald. But nobody heeded what he said. "I won't have her, I tell you; I won't have her!" said Donald, and this time he said it louder; but nobody heeded what he said. "I won't have her, I tell you; I won't have her!" said Donald; and this time he said it as loud as he could. "And who won't you have, may I be so bold as to ask?" said a farmer, who had just come up with a drove of cattle, and was turning in for a glass. "It's the king's daughter. They are bothering the life out of me to marry her." |
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