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1. Big Fairly and Small Fairly

   

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   Once there lived two men and one of them was called Small Fairly and the other was called Big Fairly. Small Fairly was a very small man and he had a very small mother. Big Fairly was a big man and he had a very big mother. After a while Big Fairly got married and he put Small Fairly and his mother out on the road and all he gave them was a little cow and seven pence halfpenny. Every day Small Fairly would put his cow into Big Fairly's land. When Big Fairly would get the cow inhis land he would give Small Fairly a good beating. At last Big Fairly killed the cow on Small Fairly and then Small Fairly skinned the cow. He brought the hide of the cow to the fair the next day and he had money stuck here and there in it. While he was going through the fair he used to say. "The best of a golden hide from the Golden Vale" Every time he would strike the hide some money would fall out of it. At last a man walked up to him and asked him

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   Folktales index

   AT1535: The Rich and the Poor Peasant

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas Molloy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Knockfree, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   John Clarke

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   52

   Address

   Knockfree, Co. Mayo