The Hope pioneer., 1922-12-28
Tim Found the Pot
Of Gold
By MICHAEL SULLIVAN
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Tin Regan? Sure, It's the rlcn
man today he Is, and 1t was prophe-
sled the day the fairy MORAN came to
his fathers wedding.
Wis rich SON yen be after having
Seumas Regain she said. but you
yourself will die as you've lived. with
the pig and the potato patch for com;
pany.' Aud sure enough the fairy's
words come true, for Seumas was
found dead in his old age in his potato
patch, with the pig sitting down be-
side him.
However, it's with Tim we're deal
had five childher, and times was bad,
and he kept wondering and he kept
wondering when the fairy's prophecy
was coming true. And at last he
dreamed a dream, and In the dream
twas the fairy MORAN standing by his
bedside
"I made promise to your dad,
Tim.' says the fairy MORAN. and sure
wouldn't break it. If you'll 60 to
Dublin, stand In front Of the custom
house and turn round three times.
you'll find q treasure
''Tim Regan thought long and hard
about 1t, and he made the mistake Of
consulting wild his wife, Kathleen, who
wouldn't let him go. For there were
seven mouths to All, not counting the
pigs, and it was hard times.
"'But the fairy MORAN promised my
father says Tim to his wife.
"Now Kathleen was jealous Of the
fairy Moiran, for y1,e fairies, you know.
have the trick Of always being young
and beautiful. And she wouldn't let
Tim go.
"Well, afther a month the fairy Mol
ran comes to Tim in a dream again.
Tim, why haven't you been afther the
treasurer she says. Go to Dublin and
stand in front of the custom house,
and turn round three times. and you'll
find It,
$50 Tim told Kathleen again, but
again Kathleen wouldn't let Tim go.
"Once more the fairy Moiran comes
to Tim in dream. 'Tim,' she says,
it's the third time of offering, and IL
y
them who will
"This time Tim bore so hard on his
wife that at last she burst out, Go to
Dublin, then, and lave me and the
childher and the pig to starve. wish
I'd married Shamus O'Hooligan.'
"That vexed Tim sore, but he wanted
the treasure bad, and SO he went of
to Dublin. When he got there he took
his place in front of the custom house,
turned round three times. and looked
for the treasure but there was no
treasure
"'How's thlsy thinks Tim. Maybe
l turned round the wrong way So he
turns round three times the opposite
way and looks again for the treasure,
but he doesn't see any treasure.
"'Bad cess to yez, Fairy Moiran!
says Tim. it's fool we've made of me-
And with that he starts for home.
However, he didn't get very far,
for little man with red head and
wooden leg comes up to him. 'How's
this?' he asks First see you turn
round three times in one way and then
ye turn round three times in the other
Is 1t drunk you are, or is 1t a spellY
"'It's SPELL says Tim, and then
he begins to tell the little man all
about the fairy MORAN coming to him
three times in q dream, and how she
said II he was to 60 to Dublin and
stand in front of the custom house
and turn round three times he'd find
treasure.
1.-THE little man with the red head
and the wooden leg burst out laughing.
There was fairy at my christening,
he says, 'and she told my father some
day I'd lose treasure. but never
troubled about it. Them fairies is
most of 'em liars he says why, only
the other night she came to me in a
dream three times-three times In q
single night, which ts more than your
fairy did,
"'And what did she say to your
inquired Tim Regan.
"'Why, she said to me that If I'd
60 to Dublin and take my stand In
front of the custom house, I'd meet
man who had treasure buried un.
der his pig-stye,' answered the little
man with the red head and wooden
leg. And I've been standing here day
afther day these six weeks past, but
I haven't met such man.
Tin Regan nodded. shook hands
wild him. and went straight home,
First thing he did was to borrow Pat
Flaherty's spade and dig under his
pigstye. and there, sure enough, he
found pot Of gold. And that's how
Tim Regan became rich man, as the
fairy MORAN prophesied at his fathers