Bioultach got healing water till he cured them; and they went on their way till they came to the Island of the Torrent, where the eight hundred men were on board the vessel.
“Oh! I believe I have forgotten. I did not go to the hag. I must go to her now.”
“Will you let me with you?” said the ragged green man.
“I will let you, and welcome. Let us leave the men here!”
Bioultach and the ragged green man went as far as the hag. When Bioultach went into the house, the cat put seven barrels of ashes out of her skin.
“Oh, may you be worse a year from to-day! you are gathering all that since I went away.”
Thereupon he sat down, and he did not know where the ragged green man was gone. It was not long till there came to him a beautiful woman, as beautiful as ever he saw, and she said,—
“Oh, Bioultach, thy hundred thousand welcomes! Good be with you. A thousand thanks to God that you accomplished the object of your journey.”
“Oh, what good is it to me, when the hag has a request to make of me?”