Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0336
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“There was a woman wan time and she got the lend of five bob...”
(continued from previous page)you when I sell the chickens". "And when will that be" ask's the other woman. "I don't know" says she. "The hens didn't lay yet".
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“There was once a man and he was in league with the fairies.”
There was once a man and he was in league with the fairies. It was a farmer, and the people used to wonder how he could get so much work done. The man employed a man to do anything, he was always able to do the work of the farm by himself. One time there was a man went to him and asked him would he cut a field of corn of him. He said that he would go over on the following day and cut it. When the next day came the man didnt turn up and the man who owned the field waited another day thinking he would turn up the next day. But the next day came and he didn't turn up, and he went to the man's house and asked the man was he goin to come at all.(continues on next page)