The Adventures of King Brian Connors
CHAPTER I
The King and the Omadhaun[1]
Did your honour ever hear how Anthony Sullivan’s goat came to join the fairies?
Well, it’s a quare story and a wandhering, quarrelsome story, as a tale about a goat is sure to be. Howsumever, in the home of the Good People—which, as you know, is the hollow heart of the great mountain Sleive-na-mon—Anthony Sullivan’s goat lives and prospers to this day, a pet and a hayro among the fairies.
And this is the way it came about:
All the world knows how for months Darby O’Gill an’ his purty sister-in-law, Maureen McGibney, were kept presners by the Good People; an’ how, afther
- ↑ Omadhaun, a foolish fellow.
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