| Show of gold Into the bargain and if you I would only put out my eyes and leave me over night in the old church again I think I would have even better luck than this time How is that says Murroghoomore Why gays Murro ghoobeg this is the way of itand he commences telling Murroghoomore > J < 9ti 1 Jj about how there was a lot of cats came every night to the old church and I commenced to tell stories every one of them about vftEre there t rasj no end of treasure hid and Ubout wbnQer I fin easy cureS for eyes that would be picked out Of mens heads till he had Murroghcomore beside himself with delight You must take and pick out my eyes now says Murroghoomore I and leave meMn i the old church the night Very good says Murroghov beg Ill do that with a heart and a half So reddening a pointed stick in the fire Murroghcobeg picked out the eye of Murroghoomore and took him to the old church and hid him under the same planks he had been antler I himself And there Murro hoomore lay till midnight when he hears the roolieboolie starting and in comes I tumbling the cats Och square sQuat square round the young ones commence com-mence to cry till we tell stories Now says Murroghoomore to himself now Im in for it Ill tell no more stories stor-ies says the old granny cat for the last night that I told the story about the kings daughter you didnt searca the house rightly and Murroshoobes was lying l hid there under them planks in the corner arid he heard the whole I rehearsal arid weht oft and cured her bad luck tobim and to herand got double her weight in gold for it and cured his own eves that had been picked out by Murroghoomore into the bargain JOh but says the young cats well search better this night and Ill warrant war-rant you well look underthe planks and may the Lord pity Murroghoobeg if hes eavesdropping again So oK they set at a galIop to search the house beginning first by looking under the planks and when they went in there oh that was the ruction and the uproar up-roar and out they comes hauling Mur roghoomore with them and when the old cats saw this they carne bouncing down spitting and then eyes flasning1 fire and all of them fell on him tearing him to pieces and it was trying to see who would get the most of him So when Murroghoobeg went to the old church the morning to see what baa e p e Groping His Way to the Well He Took Off His Boots and Filled One of Them With Water become of Murroghoomore he got nothing only a rickle of bare bones I Murroghoobegr burled these and went hojne and lived happy ever after I |
