drive them away. The King of Ireland's Son watched Art and his men
trying to do it. But no sooner were the strange cattle put out at one
side of the field than they came back on the other. Then down came
Maravaun, the King's Councillor. He declared they were enchanted cattle,
and that no one on Ireland's ground could put them away. So in the
seven-acre field the cattle stayed.

When the King of Ireland's Son saw what his companion of yesterday could
do he rode straight to the glen to try if he could have another game
with him. There at the turn of the road, on a heap of stones, the gray
old fellow was sitting playing a game of cards, the right hand against
the left. The King of Ireland's Son fastened his horse to the branch of
a tree and dismounted.

"Did you find yesterday's wager settled?" said the gray old fellow.

"I did," said the King of Ireland's Son.

"Then shall we have another game of cards on the same understanding?"
said the gray old fellow.

"I agree, if you agree," said the King of Ireland's son. He sat under
the bush beside him and they played again. The King of Ireland's Son
won.

"What would you like me to do for you this time?" said the gray old
fellow.

Now the King's Son had a step-mother, and she was often cross-tempered,
and that very morning he and she had vexed each other. So he said, "Let
a brown bear, holding a burning coal in his mouth, put Caintigern the
Queen from her chair in the supper-room to-night."

"It shall be done," said the gray old fellow.

Then the King of Ireland's Son mounted his horse and rode away

His hound at his heel,
His hawk on his wrist;
A brave steed to carry him whither he list,
And the green ground under him,

and he went back to the Castle. That night a brown bear, holding a
burning coal in his mouth, came into the supper-room and stood between
Caintigern the Queen and the chair that belonged to her. None of the
servants could drive it away, and when Maravaun, the King's Councillor,
came he said, "This is an enchanted creature also, and it is best for us
to leave it alone." So the whole company went and left the brown bear in
the supper-room seated 'in the Queen's chair.

II

The next morning when he wakened the King's Son said, "That was a
wonderful thing that happened last night in the supper-room. I must go
off and play a third game with the gray old fellow who sits on a heap of
stones at the turn of the road." So, in the morning e