Volume: CBÉ 0106
- Date
- 1935
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0106, Page 384
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- (continued from previous page)gave the golden urn to the king. The king couldn't believe his eyes when Jack arrived safe and sound with the golden urn. He thanked Jack over and over again, and gave him his hundred pounds. You may be save Jack and the brown horse slept well that night and part of the next day.
About a week afterwards the grand lady came to the king's palace, and the king then asked her to marry him as he had got the golden for her. She examined it and told him it was indeed the right urn, "but" says she "I cannot marry you until you get for me the red mare that lies at the bottom of the red sea and three foals at her foot." The king was greatly disappointed when she wouldn't marry him yet, and he(continues on next page)
