Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0102
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“There is another story told of a man who was always drinking.”
(continued from previous page)time he found it, then he went back and got the child up in his arms and went to the hole and after some awful squeezing he got out of it and went in the direction of his own house. His wife was greatly surprised when she saw him coming in himself and the child. She thought that he was dead for she could get no account of him although she searched the whole country for miles around. But what she wondered mostly was the child in his arms for she had her own child in the cradle inside. Tom went in with the child anyway and when he saw the other child in the cradle he knew well enough that it was a fairy changeling that was in it, and he told his wife so. He told the wife everything that happened him from the time he left(continues on next page)