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1. An Old Story (continued)

   

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   brought her to his house and he promised to marry her, if she could change a barn of straw into gold, so he put her into the barn this night, and she cried because of her foolish father saying's, as she could do no such thing. At one o clock at night there came a knock to the door, and she asked who was there, and in came a little dwarf to her and she told her story to the dwarf, and he asked her what would she give him, so she promsied to give him a lot of money, and he spun the straw into gold, so the King was delighted to see his barn full of gold, so he put her into a bigger barn the next night and the King told her that if she wouldn't have it spun into gold in the morning he would kill her so she cried until the little dwarf came again and the dwarf asked her what she would give him and she said she had nothing to give him and he told

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   May Heaney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumegil, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Mr Thomas Boylan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drumegil, Co. Cavan