Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0068
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“There was a man one time and he had a hump on his back.”
(continued from previous page)after this, this man was coming home from town and he was talking to another man on the road, and this man had a hump on his back. He started telling him how he got rid of his hump and the other man was delighted, but he was a bit nervous of fairies, so he went to the nearest public house, and got a few drinks and came back and didn’t care where he was going. He went ahead anyhow until he came to a wood and he went into it. It wasn’t long until he heard the fairies coming along after him and they were saying “Dé Luain, Dé Máirt, Dé Céadaoin” and they were all saying it together. When they came up to the him they stopped and he said Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. He was a little merry and didn’t know what he was saying. When he was finished talking he heard a(continues on next page)