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1. The Magic Bottle (continued)

   

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   and told him it would make a rich man of him. He told him when he would go home to put it on the floor and say, bottle do your duty. He did as he was told and two tiny little men jumped out of the bottle and began to cover the table with plates made of silver and gold and the best of food. The man and his wife grew very rich. The landlord bothered him asking him where he got his new riches at last the man told all about the bottle. The landlord told him he would leave him his land free for ever if he would give him the bottle and he did. After a time the man began to get poorer and poorer until at last he had only one cow again. He took the cow again to find the little man he found him and he gave him another bottle and told him do the same with it. When he came home he placed the bottle on the floor and told it do its duty. Out jumped two

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Dan Kelly

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   16

   Address

   Carrigawannia, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Mrs D. Kelly

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   62

   Address

   Carrigawannia, Co. Kerry