money was wasted, used to live in a grand castle. So, next day, over Nancy goes to this prince, and to him says: “Why, Prince Connal, isn’t it a shame to see the likes of you livin’ in the likes of that house?”
“I know it is,” said he, “but I cannot do any better.”
“Botheration,” says Nancy, “you easily can.”
“I wish you would tell me how,” says Prince Connal.
“Why,” says Nancy, “there's my Shamus has little or nothing to do, an’ why don’t you make him build you a castle?”
“Ah,” says the prince, laughing, “sure, Shamus couldn’t build me a castle.”
Says Nancy: “You don’t know Shamus, for there’s not a thing in the wide world he couldn’t do if he likes to; but he’s that lazy, that if you don’t break every bone in his body to make him do it, he won’t do it.”
“Is that so?” says Prince Connal.
“That’s so,” says Nancy. “So if you order Shamus to build you a castle an’ have it up in three weeks, or that you'll take his life if he doesn’t, you’ll soon have a grand castle to live in,” says she.
