Pursuant to her resolution, by the early dawn of morning she hied to the cabin of the _Cailleach-chearc_, and divulged to her the cause of her trouble. "I cannot render you any help," said the _Cailleach_, "until you name the _duais_" (reward). "What _duais_ do you require?" asked the queen, impatiently. "My _duais_," replied the enchantress, "is to fill the cavity of my arm with wool, and the hole I shall bore with my distaff with red wheat." "Your _duais_ is granted, and shall be immediately given you," said the queen. The enchantress thereupon stood in the door of her hut, and bending her arm into a circle with her side, directed the royal attendants to thrust the wool into her house through her arm, and she never permitted them to cease until all the available space within was filled with wool. She then got on the roof of her brother's house, and, having made a hole through it with her distaff, caused red wheat to be spilled through it, until that was filled up to the roof with red wheat, so that there was no room for another grain within. "Now," said the queen, "since you have received your _duais_, tell me how I can accomplish my purpose." "Take this chess-board and chess, and invite the prince to play with you; you shall win the first game. The condition you shall make is, that whoever wins a game shall be at liberty to impose whatever _geasa_ (conditions) the winner pleases on the loser. When you win, you must bid the prince, under the penalty either to go into _ionarbadh_ (exile), or procure for you, within the space of a year and a day, the three golden apples that grew in the garden, the _each dubh_ (black steed), and _coileen con na mbuadh_ (hound of supernatural powers), called Samer, which are in the possession of the king of the Firbolg race, who resides in Lough Erne.[72] Those two things are so precious, and so well guarded, that he can never attain them by his own power; and, if he would rashly attempt to seek them, he should lose his life."