Volume: CBÉ 0221
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“There is a part of the road in Galbally...”
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“There was a cobbler wan time and it was said he was a fairy man.”
There was a cobbler wan time and it was said that he was a fairy man. He used to call upon the fairies to help him when he would have too much work to do. Of course the fairies wouldn't help him at all if he wasn't busy. When he would ask for help he would want to have fifteen or sixteen pairs of boots to be mended. Then the fairies would come along and they would tell him to put the boots into the churn and turn it twenty one times. When he would have turned the churn twenty one times and all the boots that required mending in it, and all the wax and all the end thread and leather and all that would be wanted, he would open it and all the boots would(continues on next page)