Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0103
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“There is another story told of a man who was always drinking.”
(continued from previous page)home, and then she knew well enough that it was only a fairy changeling that was in the cradle. Tom went over to the cradle with the other child in his arms and when the lad in the cradle saw them coming over to them he took to bawling and screeching and got out of the cradle and flew out in the door and away to the rath. Tom and his wife then lived happy enough for a while, the fairies never troubled him after that. That was a good lesson for Tom. He took the pledge again and swore that he would never break it, but misfortune was in store for him. About a year afterwards he was at a fair and he sold six or seven cattle and when he was coming home he went into a shop on the side of the road to get something that he forgot. I was only by mistake(continues on next page)