"Is there anything else of cure in the well?"
"There is," said Conall; "if any one were blind, and he to put a drop of that water on his eyes he would get his sight."
When they had gone away then in the morning, and were departed, the man that was listening to them rose up from [under] the flag. There was a herd or shepherd going by. He came to this man who was blind and spoke to him.
"Well, now," says the blind man, "is there any well here?"
He just put down his hand and splashed a drop of the water in on his two eyes; and he had his sight then as well as ever he had.
"Well now," says he to the herd, "would you be so kind as to give me a bottle?"
He filled the bottle with the water of the well and off he went. He was travelling until he came to the king's house. He asked to let him in.
The man who was on guard said that he would not let him in, that the king's daughter was sick and ill.
He sent for the king. He told him [by the messenger] that there was a man at the gate who would cure his daughter.
The king came out, and told the gate keeper to let in the man.
When he came in the king took him back into the chamber where his daughter was. When he looked at her [he saw that] she was as big as a horse.
"Now," said he to the king, "send for your men at arms, bring them in here."
When the men at arms were inside, he closed the door outside. He told them, anything that she should throw out, they must cut the head off it.
He gave her a drop of the water that was in the bottle to drink. The moment she drank it she threw from her a live cat out of her stomach. The head was cut off it before it reached the ground. They did the same with the twelve cats that she threw out of her stomach. She rose up then as sound and as well as ever she was.
The merchant was about to go away then, but the king would not allow him to depart. He said that he must marry his daughter.
They were one day going in their coach, and they saw the merchant who had made the bet that the help of God was not in the road. He spoke to him, and the merchant asked him where did he get all his riches.
"I got it in the place where you left me, in the church."
He [the other merchant] went away then at night, and he went in under the same flag, and it happened to the cats that they came together that night. When they were all assembled together. "Tell a story, O Conall, king of the cats," said one of them.