And very good hearing Caoilte had.  One time he heard the King of the Luigne of Connacht at his hunting, and Blathmec that was with him said, “What is that hunt, Caoilte?” “A hunt of three packs of hounds,” he said, “and three sorts of wild creatures before them.  The first hunt,” he said, “is after stags and large deer and the second hunt is after swift small hares, and the third is a furious hunt after heavy boars.”  “And what is the fourth hunt, Caoilte?” said Blathmec.  “It is the hunting of heavy-sided, low-bellied badgers.”  And then they heard coming after the hunt the shouts of the lads and of the readiest of the men and the serving-men that were best at carrying burdens.  And Blathmec went out to see the hunting, and just as Caoilte had told him, that was the way it was.

And he understood the use of herbs, and one time he met with two women that were very downhearted because their husbands had gone from them to take other wives.  And Caoilte gave them Druid herbs, and they put them in the water of a bath and washed in it, and the love of their husbands came back to them, and they sent away the new wives they had taken.

And as to Lugaidh’s Son, that was of Finn’s blood, and another of the best men of the Fianna, he was put into Finn’s arms as a child, and he was reared up by Duban’s daughter, that had reared eight hundred fighting men of the Fianna, till his twelfth year, and then she gave him all he wanted of arms and of armour, and he went to Chorraig Conluain and the mountains of Slieve Bladhma, where Finn and the Fianna were at that time.

And Finn gave him a very gentle welcome, and he struck his hand in Finn’s hand, and made his agreement of service with him.  And he stopped through the length of a year with the Fianna; but he was someway sluggish through all that time, so that under his leading not more than nine of the Fianna got to kill so much as a boar or a deer.  And along with that, he used to beat both his servants and his hounds.

And at last the three battalions of the Fianna went to where Finn was, at the Point of the Fianna on the edge of Loch Lein, and they made their complaint against Lugaidh’s Son, and it is what they said:  “Make your choice now, will you have us with you, or will you have Lugaidh’s Son by himself.”

Then Lugaidh’s Son came to Finn, and Finn asked him, “What is it has put the whole of the Fianna against you?” “By my word,” said the lad, “I do not know the reason, unless it might be they do not like me to be doing my feats and casting my spears among them.”

Then Finn gave him an advice, and it is what he said:  “If you have a mind to be a good champion, be quiet in a great man’s house; be surly in the narrow pass.  Do not beat your hound without a cause; do not bring a charge against your wife without having knowledge of her guilt; do not hurt a fool in fighting, for he is without his wits.  Do not find fault with high-up persons; do not stand up to