Volume: CBÉ 0221
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“There was a king wan time and had three sons.”
(continued from previous page)out of doors for a few weeks for fear of him getting a relapse of the sickness. He remained inside all right for the first week. The next week was a very fine one and the king said to himself that he would go for a walk unknown to the doctors. So he took his stick and his coat and set off. He walked about a mile away from the palace and then he found himself getting weaker and weaker and then he returned homewards. He was about half way home when there came a great shower of rain and the poor king could take shelter nowhere from it, with the result that he was drowned wet. He got home anyway and, he went to bed, and in a few minutes he was in an awful state with the(continues on next page)