Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0249
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“There was a man one time and he was coming home wan night...”
(continued from previous page)was coming near his own home he met two or three little fellows in the lane. They were about three feet in height and they now dressed in red and they had little mad shoes on them and they had long whiskers and it coming ta a point at the bottom and they had long pointed ears on them almost a foot in lenght. When he came up to them they stopped him in the middle of the lane and asked him was it true that he was thinking of going to plough up their rath which was on his land. he said that he was thinking of it alright so they did nothing only gave him a slap in the face ane passed on. He went home and when he got inside the wife asked him what in the name of God was wrong with his face he felt his(continues on next page)