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   three stirs, and take it out and put it on the king again.
   All the doctors went out of the room, and the smith went in and did as he was told, and the king jumped up in the bed and was well again, so the smith got the gold, and a horse to carry it away.
   He met the little man again, and he asked the smith to give him some money, that he wanted to buy a pair of shoes, so the smith said he would not give him any for it was himself that cured the king. They said that they would sit down to rest before they would go any further, so they sat down and the smith began to sleep and when he wakened on they went a little further, and they heard about the king of France being sick also. So the little man said to the smith, you can cure him and you will get £500, and the two fell asleep and when they wakened they were in France.
   The wee man left the smith, and the smith went into the room and everyone left the room. The smith cut the head off the king, and put it into a pot of boiling water, but the head melted in the pot and he said "I shall be hanged now", and at that the wee man appeared to him, and the wee man put the head on the king again and he was as well as he had been before. They got £500 and they divided it between the two, and as they left the palace.

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   AT0753: Christ and the Smith

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary O' Neill

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   15

   Address

   Drumgorman, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Hugh Blaney

   Relation

   Unknown

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   40

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Drumgorman, Co. Donegal