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“Ora Wirus thruagh, but it was the ould people could tell the yarns.”
CBÉ 0485
The man did is the blacksmith tould him. He went home an' tied the mule quietly outside the house, for fear his wife id hear him, an' come out, an' then he rushed in in aterrible hurry mayah, an' sez he "Oh Jamery Cripes, Ainey the fort is on fire
The minnit the fella in the cradle heard this, he jumped out o' wan spring an' out the dure with him shoutin' Cripes craythur, an' things, me wife an childre 'ill be burned alive.
The man, an' his wife went out ta look afther him, an' fot aught they see, comin' runnin form the fort, but this tall young man. They asked him if he saw, any small little man runnin' into the fort.
Idid sez he, an' I'm glad ye got the betther o' him at lasht. He has held me aprisoner in this fort for twenty yhears, an' he meant ta hould me there for ever sez he if ye warn't able ta get the betther o' him in some way. The minnit ye did he sez the spell was broken.
"An who are you" sez the both to him.
"Yer son" sez he
When they had welcomed him back enough, they asked him how he got inta the fort, an' he tould them that the people of' the fort had swaped aconthrary ould leprehaun with them for him because he was agood
The minnit the fella in the cradle heard this, he jumped out o' wan spring an' out the dure with him shoutin' Cripes craythur, an' things, me wife an childre 'ill be burned alive.
The man, an' his wife went out ta look afther him, an' fot aught they see, comin' runnin form the fort, but this tall young man. They asked him if he saw, any small little man runnin' into the fort.
Idid sez he, an' I'm glad ye got the betther o' him at lasht. He has held me aprisoner in this fort for twenty yhears, an' he meant ta hould me there for ever sez he if ye warn't able ta get the betther o' him in some way. The minnit ye did he sez the spell was broken.
"An who are you" sez the both to him.
"Yer son" sez he
When they had welcomed him back enough, they asked him how he got inta the fort, an' he tould them that the people of' the fort had swaped aconthrary ould leprehaun with them for him because he was agood