King O'Toole and His Goose
This story is part of the Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1892). |
| Saint Kavin was making the "old"goose as good as new |
Long time ago, there was a king named King O'Toole. He used to be a strong person, who loved hiking and hunting. However, time passed and he changed to an old man. He had never go hiking and hunting since his health did not allow to. He got bored when life was just so leisured. He used to walked along the riverbank to think about everything. It turned out that his best friend was a goose, since a goose diverted him. The goose catched fishes for the king and go diving and swimming around the pond to divert the king. However, time passed and the goose became weak, old and no longer could divert the king anymore.
There came Saint Kavin, who disguised to a boy, to try the King. Saint Kavin offered to transform the old goose to the youth one if the king agreed to give him all the ground the the goosed flies over. The king agreed and he kept his promise when he saw the goose flies more strong than before. Saint Kavin had touched by the king's truthful and he decided to support the king until the king had died.
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