School: Béal an Átha Móir (C.) (roll number 13614)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: An tSr. Áthracht
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- (continued from previous page)looking well. So he told her about the little man with a red hat, who hit him and that he felt very weak after it. So they started for home and the man was hardly able to walk but he got home anyhow, and went to bed. He was in bed a long time and was not improving. So a neighbouring man came into see him one night and told him about a fairy Doctor that lived on the mountain. So he sent for (hiw) him to cure him, and the Doctor told (him to cure him) his wife to get three of the strongest men in the district on a certain night, and bolt the doors and to shut up the windows and when a knock would come to the door not to open it. When the sick man and his wife and the three strong men were in the house, a loud knock came to the(continues on next page)
