Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0082
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“There was a man wan time and he was a bit silly in his mind.”
(continued from previous page)When he went home he was tellin' the neighbours that he had a fairy in his hands and when he took his eyes off him the fairy vanished. They told him that if he got a fairy in his hands he should keep his eyes on him all the time, or if not he would never lead him to the crock of gold.
So he started off again in seach of fairies, and after about six months he happened on another. Wan night he was comin' home from a wake an' he wasn't expecting fairies at all, when he saw one of them goin; down the lane before him. He ran after it an' he caught it and took it up in his arms and never took his eyes off it, although the fairy did all in its power to make him do so. He kept asking the fairy for the gold all the time but the fairy told him that he(continues on next page)