Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
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Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 132
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“There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”
(continued from previous page)that that part of it would be allright. The divil went away in good humour. The smith was in good form now as he had plenty of money, but there was one great trouble on his mind and that was that he would have to go with the divil in a very short time. When the twelmonth was nearly up the smith went to an old fairy woman and asked her advice on the matter. She told him she would give him a chair and get the divil to sit in it and then he would have to stay in it until he would release him. The smith thanked the woman very much and went home. When the year was up the divil appeared at the forge door an was smiling from(continues on next page)