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026 - Brewery of Eggshells · Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty five of Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Seltic Folk and Fairy Tales edited by
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Jacobs. Section twenty five Brewery of Eggshells. In Trenegluis,
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  Speaker 1: there is a certain shepherd's cot known by the name
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  Speaker 1: of Trete Simrus because of the strange strife that occurred there.
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  Speaker 1: There once lived there a man and his wife, and
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  Speaker 1: they had twins, whom the woman nursed tenderly. One day
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  Speaker 1: she was called away to the house of a neighbor
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  Speaker 1: at some distance. She did not much like going and
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  Speaker 1: leaving her little ones all alone in a solitary house,
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  Speaker 1: especially as she had heard tell of the good folk
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  Speaker 1: haunting the neighborhood. Well, she went and came back as
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  Speaker 1: soon as she could, But on her way back she
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  Speaker 1: was frightened to see some old elves of the blue
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  Speaker 1: petticoat crossing her path. Though it was midday, she rushed home,
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  Speaker 1: but found her two little ones in the cradle, and
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  Speaker 1: everything seemed as it was before. But after a time
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  Speaker 1: the good people began to suspect that something was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: for the twins did not grow at all. The men said,
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  Speaker 1: they are not ours. The woman said, whose else should
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  Speaker 1: they be? And so arose the great strive, so that
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  Speaker 1: the neighbors named the cottage after it. It made the
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  Speaker 1: woman very sad, so one evening she made up her
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  Speaker 1: mind to go and see the wise men of Laneedlows,
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  Speaker 1: for he knew everything and would advise her what to do.
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  Speaker 1: So she and to learn it loose, and told the
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  Speaker 1: case to the wise man. Now there was soon to
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  Speaker 1: be a harvest of ryan oats, So the wise man
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  Speaker 1: said to her, when you're getting dinner for the reapers,
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  Speaker 1: clear out the shell of a han's egg and boil
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  Speaker 1: some pottage in it, and then take it to the doors,
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  Speaker 1: as if you ment it as a dinner for the reapers.
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  Speaker 1: Then listen if the twins say anything. If you hear
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  Speaker 1: them speaking of things beyond the understanding of children, go
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  Speaker 1: back and take them up and throw them into the
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  Speaker 1: waters of Lake Elvin. But if you don't hear anything remarkable,
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  Speaker 1: do them no injury. So when the day of the
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  Speaker 1: reap came, the woman did all that. The wise men ordered,
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  Speaker 1: and put the eggshell on the fire, and took it
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  Speaker 1: off and carried it to the door, And there she
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  Speaker 1: stood and listened. Then she heard one of the children
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  Speaker 1: say to the other, ache and before oak. I knew
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  Speaker 1: an egg before a hen, But I never heard of
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  Speaker 1: an eggshell brew a dinner for harvest men. So she
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  Speaker 1: went back into the house, seized the children and threw
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  Speaker 1: them into the linn. And the goblins and their blue
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  Speaker 1: trousers came and saved their dwarfs, and the mother had
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  Speaker 1: her own children back, and so the great strife ended.
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  Speaker 1: And of Section twenty five