my request," said Finn. "What request
is there that you would not get?" said she. "It is what I am asking, one
of the pups of Diarmuid's greyhound bitch." "That is no great thing to
ask," she said; "and whichever one you choose of them you may bring it
away."

So he got the pup, and he brought it away with him.

At the fall of night Diarmuid came back to the house, and the greyhound
met him at the door and gave a yell when she saw him, and he looked for
the pups, and one of them was gone. There was anger on him then, and he
said to the woman: "If you had brought to mind the way you were when I
let you in, and your hair hanging, you would not have let the pup be
brought away from me." "You ought not to say that, Diarmuid," said she.
"I ask your pardon for saying it," said Diarmuid. And they forgave one
another, and he spent the night in the house.

On the morrow Diarmuid went back again to his comrades, and the woman
stopped at the house, and after a while she saw Oisin coming towards
her. She gave him a welcome, and asked him into the house, and he said
he would come if he would get his request. And what he asked was another
of the pups of the greyhound.

So she gave him that, and he went away bringing the pup with him. And
when Diarmuid came back that night the greyhound met him, and she cried
out twice. And he knew that another of the pups was gone, and he said to
the greyhound, and the woman standing there: "If she had remembered the
way she was when she came to me, she would not have let the pup be
brought away."

The next day he went back again to the Fianna, and when he was gone, the
woman saw Caoilte coming towards her, and he would not come in to take a
drink from her till he had got the promise of one of the pups the same
as the others.

And when Diarmuid came back that night the greyhound met him and gave
three yells, the most terrible that ever were heard. There was great
anger on him then, when he saw all the pups gone, and he said the third
time: "If this woman remembered the way she was when I found her, and
her hair down to her heels, she would not have let the pup go." "O
Diarmuid, what is it you are after saying?" she said. He asked
forgiveness of her then, and he thought to go into the house, but it was
gone and the woman was gone on the moment, and it was on the bare ground
he awoke on the morrow. There was great sorrow on him then, and he said
he would search in every place till he would find