School: Dúndroma (roll number 13818)
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs Ester Jackson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0582, Page 075
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - An old man was walking in a wood when he saw a lot of fairy fingers. He plucked ten of them and put them on his ten fingers. When he was going home the fairy fingers turned into fairies.
As soon as he got home his wife asked him what had happened to his fingers. He looked at them and didn't he get a shock.
He began to warm them, and as he warmed them they turned back into ten fingers again, and then he went to bed.
Next morning there were boils on his fingers as big as his head. He went to the doctor who told him not to touch them(continues on next page)
