"Over hill, over dale,
Through bush, through brier,
Over park, over pale,
Through flood, through fire,
I do wander everywhere."
—William Shakespeare
While John traveled with his good fairy, his mother and father sat before their fireside. They talked for hours about the lad's good fortune.
Of course Shaun explained to his wife that the girl was no fairy. He told Dawn O'Day that she was Marjorie, the baby Princess, for whom he had worked so long ago.
Dawn O'Day was pleased to think how much her boy was learning. She loved to think that some day little John might be a great, wise man.
And the boy was indeed learning, and seeing all manner of wonders. Together he and Marjorie visited the Giant's Causeway, which is in the northern part of Ireland. The Giant's Causeway is a very remarkable place.
It is supposed to have been made by the giants of old. It is believed by some that the queer rocks were built by giants. These great monsters were trying to make a great bridge across the water to join Ireland and Scotland.
Of course this is only a fairy tale. But those huge, queer rocky forms do look as though giants had built them.
The water roars up to the shore and often splashes over those strange, tall rocks. They are probably the result of a terrible eruption by some volcano, or fire mountain, years ago.