Donegal Fairy Tales by Seumas MacManus

Author:Seumas MacManus [MacManus, Seumas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: child_tale
Published: 1900-03-19T05:00:00+00:00

“Your manners are not so handsome as your looks,” said Jack to her.

“And bad as they are, they are better than your memory, Hookedy-Crookedy,” says she.

“What do you mean?” says Jack.

She led Jack aside, and she told him, “I am the mare who was so good to you. I was condemned to that shape for a number of years, and now my enchantment is over. I had a brother who was enchanted into a bear, and whose enchantment is over now also. I had hopes,” she says, “that some day you would be my husband, but I see,” she says, “that you quickly forgot all about me. No matter now,” she says; “I couldn’t wish you a better and handsomer wife than you have got. Go home to your castle, and be happy and live prosperous. I shall never see you, and you will never see me again.”

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