eed that Jack, when he'd
tell his story, would disgrace them, and they'd put him to death. But
Jack agreed if they'd let him live he would go away and push his
fortune, and never go back near home. They let him live on these
conditions, and they pushed on home, where they were received with
great welcomes, and told mortial great things entirely of all the
great things they done while they were away. Jack come to the castle
in disguise and got hired as a boy and lived there.

The Queen of the Golden Mines, when she woke up and learned of the
young gentleman that had killed the dhragon, and carried off the child
and the other things, and kissed her, said he must be a fine fellow
entirely, and she would never marry another man if she couldn't find
him out. She got no rest till she started, herself and her virgins,
and away to find out Jack. She first come to the old man, where she
got her purse, and he directed her to the King of France. When she
come to the Court of the King of France she got her bottle, and he
said Jack went from there to go to see the King of England. From the
King of England she got her loaf, and he diracted her to Ireland,
telling her that Jack was no other than the King of Ireland's son. She
lost no time then reaching the Court of the King of Ireland, where she
demanded his son who had killed the fiery dhragon. The King sent out
his eldest son, and he said it was him that had killed the fiery
dhragon, and she asked him for tokens, but he could give none, so she
said he wasn't the man she wanted. Then the King's second son come out
and said it was him killed the fiery dhragon. But he couldn't show her
no tokens either, so he wouldn't do. Then the King said he had no
other son, but a good-for-nothing _droich_ who went away somewhere and
never come back; but that it wasn't him anyhow, for he couldn't kill
a cockroach. She said she'd have to see him, and converse with him, or
otherwise she wouldn't go away till she'd pull down his castle. Then
the whole house was upside down, and they didn't know what to do. And
Jack, who was doing something about the yards axed what it was all
about; and they told him, and he axed to have a minute's convarsing
with her. But they all laughed at him; and one gave him a knock, and
another gave him a push, and another gave him a kick. And Jack never
minded them one bit, but went out and said it was him that kilt the
fiery dhragon. They all set up another big roar of a laugh