The Irishman was little more than alive by this time . As soon as daylight appeared the Princess came , and found him lying full length on the floor , unable to speak a word . She took a bottle , rubbed him from head to foot with something from it , and thereupon he was as sound as ever ; but after what he had got that night he was very unwilling to try it a second time . The Princess , however , entreated him to stay , saying that the next night would not be so bad , and in the end he gave in and stayed . When it was getting near midnight he heard them ordering him to open the door , and there were three of them for every one that there had been the previous evening . He did not make the slightest movement to go out to them or to open the door , but before long they broke it up , and were in on top of him . They laid hold of him , and kept throwing him between them up to the ceiling , or jumping above him , until the cock crew , when they all disappeared . When day came the Princess went to the room to see if he was still alive , and taking the bottle put it to his nostrils , which soon brought him to himself . The first thing he said then was that he was a fool to go on getting himself killed for anyone he ever saw , and was determined to be off and stay there no longer , When the Princess learned his intention she entreated him to stay , reminding him that another night would free her from the spell . ` Besides , ' she said , ` if there is a single spark of life in you when the day comes , the stuff that is in this bottle will make you as sound as ever you were . ' With all this the Irishman decided to stay ; but that night there were three at him for every one that was there the two nights before , and it looked very unlikely that he would be alive in the morning after all that he got . When morning dawned , and the Princess came to see if he was still alive , she found him lying on the floor as if dead . She tried to see if there was breath in him , but could not quite make it out . Then she put her hand on his pulse , and found a faint movement in it . Accordingly she poured what was in the bottle on him , and before long he rose up on his feet , and was as well as ever he was . So that business was finished , and the Princess was freed from the spell . The Princess then told the Irishman that she must go away for the present , but would return for him in a few days in a carriage drawn by four grey horses . He told her to ` be aisy , ' and not speak like that to him . ' I have paid dear for you for the last three nights , ' he said , ` if I have to part with you now ; ' but in the twinkling of an eye she had disappeared . He did not know what to do with himself when he saw that she was gone , but before she went she had given him a little rod , with which he could , when he pleased , waken the men who had been sleeping there , some of them for sixteen years .
After being thus left alone , he went in and stretched himself on three chairs that were in the room , when what does he see coming in at the XXXXX but a little fair-haired lad .
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