Note 7 — Chapter IX · SCOTTISH-TINKER STORIES
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Brian, the son of the king of Greece, fell in love with the hen-wife’s daughter, and he would marry no other but she. His father said to him on a day of days, before that should happen that he must get first for him the most marvellous bird that there was in the world. Then here went Brian, and he put the world under his head, till he came much further than I can tell, or you can think, till he reached the house of the Carlin of Buskins.7 He got well taken to by the carlin that night; and in the morning she said to him, ‘It is time for thee to arise. The journey is far.’