"The first is that you do not go to ask your worldly king to a feast or a dinner without first letting me know," said she. "Hoch!" said O'Cronicert, "do you think that I cannot keep that vow? I would never go to invite my worldly king without informing you that I was going to do so. It is easy to keep that vow." "You are likely to keep it!" said she. "The second vow is," said she, "that you do not cast up to me in any company or meeting in which we shall be together, that you found me in the form of a deer." "Hoo!" said O'Cronicert, "you need not to lay that vow upon me. I would keep it at any rate." "You are likely to keep it!" said she. "The third vow is," said she, "that you do not leave me in the company of only one man while you go out." It was agreed between them that she should marry him. They reached the old tumble-down black house. Grass they cut in the clefts and ledges of the rocks; a bed they made and laid down. O'Cronicert's wakening from sleep was the lowing of cattle and the bleating of sheep and the neighing of mares, while he himself was in a bed of gold on wheels of silver, going from end to end of the Tower of Castle Town. "I am sure that you are surprised," said she. "I am indeed," said he. "You are in your own room," said she. "In my own room," said he. "I never had such a room." "I know well that you never had," said she; "but you have it now. So long as you keep me you shall keep the room." He then rose, and put on his clothes, and went out. He took a look at the house when he went out; and it was a palace, the like of which he had never seen, and the king himself did not possess. He then took a walk round the farm; and he never saw so many cattle, sheep, and horses as were on it. He returned to the house, and said to his wife that the farm was being ruined by other people's cattle and sheep. "It is not," said she: "your own cattle and sheep are on it." "I never had so many cattle and sheep," said he. "I know that," said she; "but so long as you keep me you shall keep them. There is no good wife whose tocher does not follow her." He was now in good circumstances, indeed wealthy. He had gold and silver, as well as cattle and sheep. He went about with his gun and dogs hunting every day, and was a great man. It occurred to him one day that he would go to invite the King of Erin to dinner, but he did not tell his wife that he was going. His first vow was now broken. He sped away to the King of Erin, and invited him and his great court to dinner. The King of Erin said to him, "Do you intend to take away the cattle that I promised you?" "Oh! no, King of Erin," said O'Cronicert; "I could give you as many to-day." "Ah!" said the king, "how well you have got on since I saw you last!" "I have indeed," said O'Cronicert! "I have fallen in with a rich wife who has plenty of gold and silver, and of cattle and sheep." "I am glad of that," said the King of Erin.