Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0131
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“There was a king wan time and had three sons.”
(continued from previous page)in it.""Well" says the boy won't they kill me if I have to pass through this wood?" "No they will not" says the old man "I will give you two loaves of bread and throw it to them when you see them coming and they won't harm you." The old man then went inside and he got the two loaves of bread and gave them to the king's son He thanked the old man very much and then he set out on his journey. He travelled on until it was about five oclock in the evening and then he saw a great big wood in front of him. He knew then that this must be the wood that he must go through. So he started off down through it. He hadn't gone twenty yards when two big wolves came for him like lightening with their tongues out over their under teeth and(continues on next page)