School: Dúndroma (roll number 13818)
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs Ester Jackson
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- (continued from previous page)When he got up the next morning the barn was full of potatoes and nearly a load outside the door.
- 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)- Collector
- Tom Carter
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Adam Carter
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary