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FOLK TALES AND FAIRY LORE. 265
At length the smith, having got a good opportunity
as she was passing him, struck her with the big
hammer with all his might. He drew it again to strike
her another blow, but she cried to him to stay his
hand, and that she would not trouble him any more.
He did as she wished; and as soon as she got out of
danger, she told him that everyone of his descendants,
taken by the beard in through the door of the smithy,
would henceforth be a perfect smith.
It happened as she had said. There was none of his
descendants who did not acquire his trade in this easy
way, and the race were famous smiths in the district for
many generations after.

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Folk tales and fairy lore in Gaelic and English
DescriptionCollected from oral tradition by James Macdougall ; edited with introduction and notes by George Calder.
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