Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 290
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“A poor boy one time went out to seek his fortune. ”
(continued from previous page)in a graveyard. He got in under a flag and lay down and started to cry. It wasn't long until the fairies came along to hold their meeting and they sat up on the flag over their heals.
The king spoke. "We are very clever people" says he. "We know more than the ordinary people". The kings daughter is blind and no one can cure her. If she washed her eyes in the well at the bottom of this graveyard she would be cured". Bill began to listen. Soon afterwards the fairies went away, and Bill stumbled down to the bottom of the graveyard and found the well. He washed his eyes with the water and he was cured. Then he got a bottle and filled it with the water and brought it to the king's palace. The kings daughter was sitting on a chair in front of the palace. Bill slob up to her and rubbed her eyes with the water and immediately she saw.
She was so delighted that she bought Bill into the palace and gave him a(continues on next page)