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206 her. So, as she jumped on the steed, he whipped off one of her glass slippers, and she came home in great concern, and told the old woman how she lost the slipper, but she said it made no matter.

Then the lord put up that whoever it was that the slipper would fit, be they rich or poor, or who they were, that he 'd marry her, and he brought his men round to see every girl through all his country; but though he travelled everywhere he could find none whom the slipper would fit. At last he came to the cabin where the old widow was and her daughters, but the slipper would not fit either Cul-fin or Cul-din.

Cul-corrach was hid in the room, and she up and said, "Perhaps the slipper would fit me."

The young men asked who was in the room, and the two girls denied there was anyone; but the men said there was someone there, and they must see her, be she who she was.

As soon as Cul-corrach was brought up the slipper was left on the floor, for no one would go to her to put it on, as she was so ugly, but as soon as she went up near the slipper it hopped on to her foot. Then they were all surprised, and the sisters were nearly out of their mind, and the lord's son said she was the one the slipper belonged to, and he would have her for his bride.

Cul-corrach asked for half an hour before he would see her again, and she went to the old women, who dressed her in the dress she wore the first Sunday; and when she returned, they all allowed she was the lady that was at the church. She begged their pardon for a little while again, and went to the old woman, who dressed her in the second Sunday's dress; and the third time she asked to go out, and said she would go out no more. So the third time she came back in the grandest dress that she had worn the third Sunday, and with the steed, and, when she came to the door, she up on the steed. The old mother was excited to see her in her dress, but her sisters said to one another