School: Cill an Daingin

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   but an enemy of the farmer, and on that account he never came there only in the farmer's absence.
   After a while the farmer came. He saw little Claus and bade him come in. When the woman heard her husband coming she hid her friend in a box, and she also hid the dainties they were eating. The wife presented the others with porridge. Little Claus brought in the horse-skin and placed it under the table. Little Claus was not eating. When asked why he was not eating he said he had a conjurer in a bag who was telling him there was lovely eatables hid in the press. The farmer looked and found all the things. Little Claus then said his conjurer told him there was an enemy of his hidden in a box. The farmer found the enemy. He told Little Claus that if he would sell him the conjurer and drown the enemy he would give him three barrows full of gold. "Agreed", said Little Claus.
   As he was going to fling the enemy into Ballycoleton river the man jumped out and said if he did not drown him he would

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