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1. The Woman who Went with the Fairies (continued)

   

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   before that. If he did, didn't he turn the doxy of a woman into a pony, just as she was getting out of bed, and up she comes trotting to him. He clapped the winkers on her, jumped up on her back, and off he makes for the same field as he went to, the two nights before that. He wasn't long there, when they began to come in from all sides, and the next thing he knew was Shoun shouting out, "There's a stranger among us toinght again". The minnit he said it, the devil such flyin', over hedges and ditches you ever saw. Peltin in every direction, and me hayro of a servant boy, as wise as he was the first night.

   When they were all gone he started, but instead of making for home, he set off towards a blacksmith's forge that he knew, for he saw that the pony had no shoes. Whin he got to the forge, the blacksmith was in bed, but he got up to the call, went an reddened the fire, and put a new set of shoes on the pony.

   The day after, the woman of the house was in bed, and a full set of pony shoes on her, feet and hands. The blacksmith that put them on had to come to take them off again. An' I promise you she didn't go with the fairies in a hurry again.

   (Seosamh O'Fearghail, Dalta Scoile, 14 bliana, o'n'a sean mathair, 85 bliana)

   

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   Topics

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)
         1. Donn Fírinne (~10)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seosamh O Fearghail

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   14