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"Yes, to be sure I can," said the old dame boldly.
"And how does that happen?" asked the little man smoothly, and without any show of anger.
"Oh, when I was nursing your good lady, I managed to rub a bit of her salve on one of my eyes, and that is how I can see you."
"And which eye did you rub with the salve?"
"My right eye."
"And it is only with your right eye you see me?"
"Only with my right eye."
When the little man heard that, quick as a flash he pursed up his lips and blew into her right eye, and he blew so hard he blew the sight right out of it. The old dame blinked and winked and rubbed her eye with her fingers. The little man had vanished from before her. She could see everything else, but what she saw was with her left eye only, and she could see no fairies with it for it had not been touched with salve.
So that was the end of it for Dame Pridgett, as far as the wee folk were concerned, for she never got back the sight of her right eye; only she still had the purse of gold pieces left, and that was enough to comfort the old dame for a great deal.
