your story, and I
think I could find good sense in your meanings if I understood them," he
said.

Then he went on to where there was another dun, very large and royal,
and another wall of bronze around it, and four houses within it. And he
went in and saw a great king's house, having beams of bronze and walls
of silver, and its thatch of the wings of white birds. And then he saw
on the green a shining well, and five streams flowing from it, and the
armies drinking water in turn, and the nine lasting purple hazels of
Buan growing over it. And they were dropping their nuts into the water,
and the five salmon would catch them and send their husks floating down
the streams. And the sound of the flowing of those streams is sweeter
than any music that men sing.

Then he went into the palace, and he found there waiting for him a man
and a woman, very tall, and having clothes of many colours. The man was
beautiful as to shape, and his face wonderful to look at; and as to the
young woman that was with him, she was the loveliest of all the women of
the world, and she having yellow hair and a golden helmet. And there was
a bath there, and heated stones going in and out of the water of
themselves, and Cormac bathed himself in it.

"Rise up, man of the house," the woman said after that, "for this is a
comely traveller is come to us; and if you have one kind of food or meat
better than another, let it be brought in." The man rose up then and he
said: "I have but seven pigs, but I could feed the whole world with
them, for the pig that is killed and eaten to-day, you will find it
alive again to-morrow."

Another man came into the house then, having an axe in his right hand,
and a log in his left hand, and a pig behind him.

"It is time to make ready," said the man of the house, "for we have a
high guest with us to-day."

Then the man struck the pig and killed it, and he cut the logs and made
a fire and put the pig on it in a cauldron. "It is time for you to turn
it," said the master of the house after a while. "There would be no use
doing that," said the man, "for never and never will the pig be boiled
until a truth is told for every quarter of it." "Then let you tell yours
first," said the master of the house. "One day," said the man, "I found
another man's cows in my land, and I brought them with me into a cattle
pound. The owner of the cows followed me, and he said he would give me a
reward to let the cows go free. So I gave