Fair, Brown, and Trembling

Then all the kings' sons were uneasy, and anxious to know who was she that lost the shoe; and they began to travel all over Erin to know could they find her.

The strange lady came again, in grander array than before.

That Sunday the people were more astonished than ever, and gazed at her more than the first time; and all they were thinking of was to know who she was.

He must come and shoot the whale with a silver bullet when he turns on the broad of his back.

They visited every place where a woman was to be found, and left not a house in the kingdom they did not search, to know could they find the woman the shoe would fit, not caring whether she was rich or poor, of high or low degree.

That Sunday the people were more astonished than ever, and gazed at her more than the first time; and all they were thinking of was to know who she was.

When the cowboy got home, the eldest sister gave him a draught of oblivion, and he did not tell.

But if she was, the prince of Omanya was at her side, and, seizing her by the foot, he ran with the mare for thirty perches, and never let go of the beautiful lady till the shoe was pulled from her foot, and he was left behind with it in his had.

When she was on the sand she said to the cowboy, "When you go home in the evening with the cows, tell the master that my sister Fair pushed me into the sea yesterday; that a whale swallowed me, and then threw me out, but will come again and swallow me with the coming of the next tide; then he'll go out with the tide, and come again with tomorrow's tide, and throw me again on the strand.

Then all the kings' sons were uneasy, and anxious to know who was she that lost the shoe; and they began to travel all over Erin to know could they find her.

From the book: Seeing her so vexed and so changed in the face, the old woman asked, "What's the trouble that's on you now?"

Next day the son of the king of Spain fought six hours, and yielded his claim.