Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)

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1. When the Fairies Didn't Want a Good-Looking Girl (continued)

   

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   but they couldn't, an' is the misht cleared up, they found themselves in a very sthrange place, an' there seemed ta be great amussment on it, for there was fiddles a playin an' all kinds o' diabaileacht goin on.
   The boy afther watchin the proceedins for a time began ta get afraid that maybe they meant ta keep him for good, for he knew well that it was the fairies that was havin' a little game on him, an fot was more he thought that he had losht the girl entirely, for she was sportin' around wit the little fairies, an' throwin' no heed at all on him, an' the wind up o' it was that he began ta get very jealous o' her, an' he made up his mind that he'd thry an' get out o' the place is besht he could, an' lave her there if she wanted to sthay.
   He went is far is fot he thought looked like the fairy king, an' he begged o' him, ta let him home to his mother, an' that he could keep the girl if he liked. The fairy king who was sittin up on a high perch like the branch o' a three never said a word only dhrew out from him, an' gave him a kick in the mouth, that made him yowl out wit apin, an' jusht the same is if every fairy in the place knew fot he was afther sayin, they all stharted ta shout out is loud

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   History Edit

   Date

   21 Aibreán 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • James Flynn