And he knew that another of the pups was gone, and he said to
the greyhound, and the woman standing there: "If she had remembered the
way she was when she came to me, she would not have let the pup be
brought away."
The next day he went back again to the Fianna, and when he was gone, the
woman saw Caoilte coming towards her, and he would not come in to take a
drink from her till he had got the promise of one of the pups the same
as the others.
And when Diarmuid came back that night the greyhound met him and gave
three yells, the most terrible that ever were heard. There was great
anger on him then, when he saw all the pups gone, and he said the third
time: "If this woman remembered the way she was when I found her, and
her hair down to her heels, she would not have let the pup go." "O
Diarmuid, what is it you are after saying?" she said. He asked
forgiveness of her then, and he thought to go into the house, but it was
gone and the woman was gone on the moment, and it was on the bare ground
he awoke on the morrow. There was great sorrow on him then, and he said
he would search in every place till he would find her again.
So he set out through the lonely valleys, and the first thing he saw was
the greyhound lying dead, and he put her on his shoulder and would not
leave her because of the love he had for her. And after a while he met
with a cowherd, and he asked him did he see a woman going the way. "I
saw a woman early in the morning of yesterday, and she walking hard,"
said the cowherd.
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