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The Wooing of Becfola - Page 2
Dermod
Mac Ae delighted in these solitary adventures, and when
he could steal a day from policy and affairs he would
send word privately to Crimthann. The boy, having donned
his huntin gear, would join the king at a place arranged
between them, and then they ranged abroad as cnce might
direct.
On one
of these adventures, as they searched a flooded river to
find the ford, they saw a solitary woman in a chariot
driving from the west.
"I
wonder what that means?" the king exclaimed
thoughtfully.
"Why
should you wonder at a woman in a chariot?" his
companion inquired, for Crimthann loved and would have
knowledge.
"Good, my
Treasure," Dermod answered, "our minds are astonished
when we see a woman able to drive a cow to pasture, for
it has always seemed to us that they do not drive well."
Crimthann
absorbed instruction like a sponge and digested it as
rapidly.
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