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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0913, Page 107

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    (continued from previous page)
    the smith went to shoe the wheel and put the red tyre on it, the rim and fellows blazed away as if you had put salt-petre on it and the flames roared and blazed up and ran the smith from his forge.
    Another neighbour got a piece of the same log and put 25 rungs on a ladder. He got up on it and when on the top rung it gave way and he falling broke his leg.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    3. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John Sutton
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Curtlestown Lower, Co. Wicklow