ey joined hands and danced round it,
singing:

Wicked traitress, Barbe Riou,
Our poor toes are burned by you;
Now we hurry from your hall--
Bad luck light upon you all.

That evening they left the country for ever, and Jegu, without their
help, grew poorer and poorer, and at last died of misery, while Barbaik
was glad to find work in the market of Morlaix.

From 'Le Foyer Breton,' par E. Souvestre

_THE WINNING OF OLWEN_

THERE was once a king and queen who had a little boy, and they called
his name Kilwch. The queen, his mother, fell ill soon after his birth,
and as she could not take care of him herself she sent him to a woman
she knew up in the mountains, so that he might learn to go out in all
weathers, and bear heat and cold, and grow tall and strong. Kilwch was
quite happy with his nurse, and ran races and climbed hills with the
children who were his playfellows, and in the winter, when the snow lay
on the ground, sometimes a man with a harp would stop and beg for
shelter, and in return would sing them songs of strange things that had
happened in the years gone by.

But long before this, changes had taken place in the court of Kilwch's
father. Soon after she had sent her baby away the queen became much
worse, and at length, seeing that she was going to die, she called her
husband to her and said:

'Never again shall I rise from this bed, and by and bye thou wilt take
another wife. But lest she should make thee forget thy son, I charge
thee that thou take not a wife until thou see a briar with two blossoms
upon my grave.' And this he promised her. Then she further bade him to
see to her grave that nothing might grow thereon. This likewise he
promised her, and soon she died, and for seven years the king sent a man
every morning to see that nothing was growing on the queen's grave, but
at the end of seven years he forgot.

One day when the king was out hunting he rode past the place where the
queen lay buried, and there he saw a briar growing with two blossoms on
it.

'It is time that I took a wife,' said he, and after long looking he
found one. But he did not tell her about his son; indeed he hardly
remembered that he had one till she heard it at last from an old woman
whom she had gone to visit. And the new queen was very pleased, and sent
messengers to fetch the boy, and in his father's court he stayed, while
the years went by till one day the queen told him that a prophe