Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0078
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“There was a man wan time and he was a bit silly in his mind.”
(continued from previous page)this place. The boys got there before him and had made up a little man about a foot an' a half in height dressed in red, with a knee breeches on him and tiny little buckle shoes, and a long whisker and it comin' to a point at the top. Then they put a long paper cap on his head an' that was also comin' to a point. They had explained to him beforehand that this was the kind of a fairy that would have the money. These two fellows then went to the rath with this homemade fairy and a piece of black thread about thirty yards in length. They sat down on this mound and it was all covered with bushes, or there were bushes all around it an ' a space in the centre. So the men got into the bushes at each side of the mound and each of them had an end of the thread and(continues on next page)