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Fairy Tree
John C. Cyr
There once was a man in Kilkenny
A farmer he was and harvested plenty
In his fields of rye and barley wheat
There stood an ordinary blackthorn tree.
"Tis' a fairy tree," said he to me
"And no wise man dare disturb that tree
I gazed upon that plain ol' tree"
"Tis just an ordinary tree," said I to he.
He looked at me with a baleful eye
And shouted then that I did lie
So I took an axe to the tree
And there were not fairy in that tree.
Looking at the tree, where it lay
The farmer cried then, "You scared them away!"
