School: Trian na gCléireach
- Location:
- Treannagleragh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Breathnach
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- (continued from previous page)said "Am I not your husband" said the man. Then said the woman. "If you are where are your humps" "Arent they on me" said the man "They arent said the woman. So then he told her what happened.
When the man went home he told a neighbour of his wife who had a hump of his good fortune. The next fair day the (little) second man went into the little hut to kindle his pipe. When he went into the cabin the inhabitans asked him could he sing or dance and he said he could not do either of them. The fairies were wild when they heard that and they got the second man's humps and put them on the second man. When the man went to the fair he stood at the place he told his wife he would stand.
When she went to the fair she searched high up and low down for her husband and she couldn't find him. At last a man asked her what she was looking for and she said she was looking for her husband who had gone to the fair this morning. The man said am not I your husband. Then the woman said where did you get the three humps. You had only one when you left the house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Creighton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Treannagleragh, Co. Mayo
