And he took the lady with him to Arthur 's court , where they lived happily till they died . From the ` Mabinogion . ' The Four Gifts In the old land of Brittany , once called Cornwall , there lived a woman named Barbaik Bourhis , who spent all her days in looking after her farm with the help of her niece Tephany . Early and late the two might be seen in the fields or in the dairy , milking cows , making butter , feeding fowls ; working hard themselves and taking care that others worked too . Perhaps it might have been better for Barbaik if she had left herself a little time to rest and to think about other things , for soon she grew to love money for its own sake , and only gave herself and Tephany the food and clothes they absolutely needed . And as for poor people she positively hated them , and declared that such lazy creatures had no business in the world . Well , this being the sort of person Barbaik was , it is easy to guess at her anger when one day she found Tephany talking outside the cowhouse to young Denis , who was nothing more than a day labourer from the village of Plover . Seizing her niece by the arm , she pulled her sharply away , exclaiming : ` Are you not ashamed , girl , to waste your time over a man who is as poor as a rat , when there are a dozen more who would be only too happy to buy you rings of silver , if you would let them ? ' ` Denis is a good workman , as you know very well , ' answered Tephany , red with anger , ` and he puts by money too , and soon he will be able to take a farm for himself . ' ` Nonsense , ' cried Barbaik , ` he will never save enough for a farm till he is a hundred . I would sooner see you in your grave than the wife of a man who carries his whole fortune on his back . ' ` What does fortune matter when one is young and strong ? ' asked Tephany , but her aunt , amazed at such words , would hardly let her finish . ` What does fortune matter ? ' repeated Barbaik , in a shocked voice . ` Is it possible that you are really so foolish as to despise money ? If this is what you learn from Denis , I forbid you to speak to him , and I will have him turned out of the farm if he dares to show his face here again . Now go and wash the clothes and spread them out to dry . ' Tephany did not dare to disobey , but with a heavy heart went down the path to the river . ` She is harder than these rocks , ' said the girl to herself , ` yes , a thousand times harder .
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