Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
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- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 135
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“There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”
(continued from previous page)The smith now was in good form again and he had plenty of money, but of course the twelmonth wasn't long going when it was spent well and it twasn't long until the divil again appeared. This time the smith though he was surely finished for he could think of no way of coaxin the divil to give him another year. Anyhow he was goin off with the divil and the divil was tellin the smith all the tricks he could do, sayin he could make himself small. The smith asked him would he be able to fit in his purse. The divil said of course he would and he got into the purse. The smith then closed the purse and the divil couldn't get out.(continues on next page)