Volume: CBÉ 0106
- Date
- 1935
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- (continued from previous page)you can change yourself back again. I'd never be able to go the whole journey with the thirst that's on me." says he to the black man. The black man consented, and changed himself into the two-shilling piece for half an hour. The moment the smith got the two-shilling piece he ran home and put a bar of iron in the fire and reddened it then he put the two-shilling-piece of iron and hammered it down over the two-shilling piece. "You'll hardly over come out of that, me boy when the half hour is up" says he. It was true for him the black man never troubled him after that and he lived to be an old man. Then he died and went to the gate of heaven and wanted to get in,(continues on next page)