Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0100
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“There is another story told of a man who was always drinking.”
(continued from previous page)him, and they singing and dancing and in great humour entirely. When Tom wakened up he was brought in to the rath by the fairies. They went down in a little hole in the ground and Tom thought he would be squeezed to death if he went in the little hole, but when he was going down the hole opened up and Tom went down without any bother. When he went below he saw the grandest sight he ever say in all his life. There was a grand hall all done out in great style the like of which Tom had never seen in all his life. Everything was decorated in the grandest style. Tom saw the king and queen seated on two lovely thrones and a bodyguard of fairies all around them. Then there was a lovely band of music and it started to play and then all the little fairies began to dance and all the old fairies sat(continues on next page)