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Tá rud beag (caitin) i bpoll agus tá tobar uisce ag bun crainn agus dhá bhfaghadh sí trí bhraon de le n-ól leigheasódh sé í.
"There is a small (...) thing in a hole and and there is a well of water at the bottom of a tree and if she got three drops of it to drink it would cure her".
Pósfaidh sí fear ar bith a leigheasfas í.
"She will marry any man who will cure her".
(Ar seisean), Tá cúig phunta, cúig mhíle dhéag de phuntaí de thíocht isteach aici sa bhliain.
He said, "She has five pounds, fifteen thousand pounds of income per year".
'Dé a' scéal? arsa cat eicinteacht acu.
"What's the story?" said one of the cats.
Tháinig na cait fhiáin isteach gan mórán moille i ndéidh a bheith amuigh ag seilg i rith an lae.
The wild cats came in shortly after that having been out hunting for the day.
"Coinneoidh sé foscadh orm".
"It will keep me sheltered."
Dúirt sé 'Fanfaidh mé anseo faoin mbairille seo a fhad agus bheas mé beo'.
He said, "I'll stay here under this barrel while I am alive".
Théigh sé é féin ag an tinidh agus fuaigh sé isteach faoin mbairille.
He heated himself by the fire and he went in under the barrel.
Bhí sé ag iarraidh foscadh, ' siúl thart leis na... ' caint leis na coillte go bhfuair sé teach in áit a rabh cait fhiáin.
He was looking for shelter, walking around the.... talking to the woods until he found a house in a place where there were wild cats.
Caithigí isteach sa gcoill mé, ar seisean, as amharc na ndaoiní sul bhfeicfí ar (...) an bhóthair mé.
"Throw me into the woods," he said, "out of people's sight before I am seen on (...) of the road."
Bhuel, nuair a bhí an geall cailltí aige bhí sé gan éadach gan amharc.
Well, when he had lost the bet he was naked and blind.
Níl in do... do chuid oibre ach (...).
"Your work is nothing but (...)."
"Á, a amadáin", ar seisean, "ghoidfeadh an fear sin a oiread aon oíche amháin is shaothrófá i gcaitheamh i do shaoil".
"Ah, you fool," he said, "That man would earn in one night as much as you would earn your whole life,".