as watching for him.

"Crom Duv has not come back yet," said she, "but oh, my dear, my dear, I
can't prevent the yellow cats from watching you come over the wall."

First six cats came and then another six and they sat round and watched
Flann come down the wall. They did nothing to him, but when he came down
on the ground they followed him wherever he went.

"You crossed the moat," said Morag, "then why did you come back?"

"I came back," said Flann, "to bring you with me."

"But," said she, "I cannot leave Crom Duv's house."

"I'll show you how to cross the moat," said he, "and we'll both be glad
to be going by the moving river."

Tears came into Morag's eyes. "I'd go with you, my dear," said she, "but
I cannot leave Crom Duv's house until I get what I came for."

"And what did you come for, Morag?" said he.

"I came," said she, "for two of the rowan berries that grow on the
Fairy Rowan Tree in Crom Duv's court-yard. I know now that to get these
berries is the hardest task in the world. Come within," said she, "and
if we sit long enough at the supper-board I will tell you my story."

They sat at the supper-board long, and Morag told

The Story of Morag

IV

I was reared in the Spae-Woman's house with two other girls, Baun and
Deelish, my foster-sisters. The Spae-Woman's house is on the top of a
knowe, away from every place, and few ever came that way.

One morning I went to the well for water. When I looked into it I saw,
not my own image, but the image of a young man. I drew up my pitcher
filled with water, and went back to the Spae-Woman's house. At noontide
Baun went to the well for water. She came back and her pitcher was only
half-filled. Before dark Deelish went to the well. She came back without
a pitcher, for it fell and broke on the flags of the well.

The next day Baun and Deelish each plaited their hair, and they said
to her who was foster-mother for the three of us: "No one will come to
marry us in this far-away place. We will go into the world to seek our
fortunes. So," said they, "bake a cake for each of us before the fall of
the night."

The Spae-Woman put three cakes on the griddle and baked them. And when
they were baked she said to Baun and Deelish: "Will you each take the
half of the cake and my blessing, or the whole of the cake without my
blessing?" And Baun and Deelish each said, "The whole of the cake will
be little enough for our journey."

Each then took her cake