Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Location
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0082
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- The Three Wishes.There was a man and his woman living
wan time about five miles to the north of Taghmon
and they were not very well off so they hadn't
much money but however they were fine and snug
Well the luck turned against them this [time?]
Anyhow and didn't wan of the two cows
they had die and the other wan was by no
means a good milker as she was fairly
ould by this time. Well they serahed [?]
a few half pence anyhow and set off for
the fair expecting to get a good cow cheap
as they were going along early in the
fine summer's morning through Browns castle
which is about two miles from Taghmon
the day was about breaking and all of
a sudden didn't the man spy a little
Luricaun and he mending a lovely little
golden shoe and he sitting on wan of them
big yokes like mushrooms that you
see growing out of a rotten tree and
he hammering away delightfully.
The man took a leap out of
his body and grabbed the Luricaun by the(continues on next page)