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020 - Kebeg · Manx Fairy Tales

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Speaker 1: Chapter nineteen of Manx Fairy Tales. This is a LibriVox recording.
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Speaker 1: G recording by Robert Robinson. Manx Fairy Tales by Sophia Morrison,
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Speaker 1: Chapter nineteen, kebeg. There is a deep dub or pool
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Speaker 1: on Balacone's Stream, which the children of Laxey call Nickison's.
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Speaker 1: It is the home of Niker, the water goblin. It
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Speaker 1: has no bottom, and brambles and ferns are growing round it,
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Speaker 1: and fir trees and hazels are hiding it from sight.
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Speaker 1: No child, no grown up person even will go near
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Speaker 1: it after dark. A great many years ago, a beautiful
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Speaker 1: girl living at Ballyquine was sent to look for the
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Speaker 1: calves which had gone astray. She had got as far
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Speaker 1: as Nickison's when she took a notion that she heard
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Speaker 1: the calves over the river in Johnny Baldoon's nuts. At
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Speaker 1: once she began to call to them Cabag cae beck
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Speaker 1: ca Bag, so loud that you could hear her. At
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Speaker 1: Chivers Ferrick Patrick's well, the people could hear her calling
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Speaker 1: quite plainly. But behold, a great mist came and rolled
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Speaker 1: down the valley and shut it from sight. The people
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Speaker 1: on one side of the valley could hear her voice, yet,
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Speaker 1: calling through the mist. Cap Bag came back, came back.
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Speaker 1: Then came a sweet voice through the mist and the
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Speaker 1: trees in answer, Capbeg's here, Capeg's here. And she cried,
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Speaker 1: I'm coming, I'm coming. And that was all. The fairies
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Speaker 1: who lived in Nichoson's had pulled her in and carried
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Speaker 1: her to their own home. She was never heard of again.
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Speaker 1: End of Chapter nineteen. Recording by Robert Robinson