Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0101
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“There is another story told of a man who was always drinking.”
(continued from previous page)around smoking their pipes and chatting. The dance went on all night. In the middle of the night Tom a great big feed of the finest stuff he ever ate in all his life. Tom was kept in the rath for three weeks and he lost his memory and didn't know where he was at all. One night the fairies all went away and in the morning they came back and Tom noticed that they had a child with them. He looked close at the child and then he knew it was his son that was in it. Immediately his memory and his senses came back to him and he began to realise the position he was in. Tom saw where they put the child, and then noticed that there were five or six other children there also. The next time the fairies went out Tom went to go look for the hole where he came in and after some(continues on next page)