Note 1 — Chapter VIII · WELSH-GYPSY STORIES

The other thing that the gentleman told him to do was to fell all the great trees for miles around by eight o’clock in the morning; and, to make my long story short, it was done, and it pleased the gentleman well. The gentleman said to him, ‘The other thing you have to do’ (and it was the last thing), ‘you must get me a great castle standing on twelve golden pillars; and there must come regiments of soldiers, and go through their drill. At eight o’clock the commanding officer must say, “Shoulder up.” ’1 ‘All right,’ said Jack; when the third and last morning came and the three great feats were finished, when he had the young daughter in marriage.