Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 108
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“I heard another story about the fairies.”
I heard another story about the fairies. There was a man living near Enniscorthy some years ago. He was a farmer. He used to wonder every morning why the horses in the stable would be so tired and life at all in them. He used to wonder at this for he used to feed them well. He didn't know what to do. One night he said to himself that he would stay up all night in the stable and watch them. He remained there until twelve o clock, and then he heard a great noise outside and then the stable door opened and in ran a whole crowd of fairies and jumped up on the horses ten or eleven of them on every horse, and galloped out in the stable door and away all in the space of a couple of minutes(continues on next page)