Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0251
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“There was a man one time and he was coming home wan night...”
(continued from previous page)and they didn't trouble this man any more. When the man found out that the priest was after banishing the fairies, the first thing that he done was to go and plough up the rath. Nothing happened. He ploughed it the next year and nothing happened. He kept on ploughing it and working it and at last the seven years were up. Then this man began to notice that he was beginning to fall into bad luck. One morning when he would wake up he would find a five new milch dead and maybe another mornin' he would find a horse in an awful state of perspiration the very same as if he was after bein' ridden all night by somebody and after bein' worked the day before. Maybe that horse would die in the come of a day or two. This was how things went on in the man's place for(continues on next page)