School: Bree (roll number 4183)
- Location:
- Bree, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Seán Ó Braoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 248
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- There was a man one time who went to the fair of Taghmon with a pig. The pig was a very troublesome one and gave the man a lot of trouble. When he searched the fair he put the pig in the yard and went down the town.He hadn't gone far when he came to a crowd of people and he found that there was a little man in the middle of them. He had a bottle in his hand and said he would change it for a pig. The pig he wanted was to be a fine fat pig with a black spot on its back and a curl in its tail.The man's pig was just like this and the little man went to the yard where it was. He said that the bottle was a magic one full of magic drops and a drop out of it would change into whatever you wished for.The man wished for a cup of tea. The fairy put a drop on his hand and there before him was the nicest cup of tea he ever tasted. Then he thought his Mother would like a cup of that, so he took the bottle. Then thought his Mother would be angry with him for changing a fine fat pig for a bottle but when he turned round again the fairy and the pig were gone. He had to go home without it.
- Collector
- Peggie Byrne
- Gender
- Female
