` She boasted that no man in the world was equal to Owen , ' said they , ` and we shut her in a cave , and agreed that none should deliver her but Owen himself , and that if he did not come by a certain day she should die . And now the time has past and there is no sign of him . ' ` In truth he is a good knight , and had he but known that the maid was in peril he would have come to save her , ' said Owen ; ` but accept me in his stead , I entreat you . ' ` We will , ' replied they , and the fight began . The youths fought well and pressed hard on Owen , and when the lion saw that he came to help his master . But the youths made a sign for the fight to stop , and said : ` Chieftain , it was agreed we should give battle to thee alone , and it is harder for us to contend with yonder beast than with thee . ' Then Owen shut up the lion in the cave where the maiden had been in prison , and blocked up the front with stones . But the fight with the giant had sorely tried him , and the youths fought well , and pressed him harder than before . And when the lion saw that he gave a loud roar , and burst through the stones , and sprang upon the youths and slew them . And so Luned was delivered at the last . Then the maiden rode back with Owen to the lands of the lady of the fountain . 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 XXXXX a farm till he is a hundred .
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