A Fairy and A Ploughman at Onehouse (Suffolk)

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Onehome: A man was ploughing in a field, a fairy quite small and sandy-coloured came to him and asked him to mend his peel (a flat iron with a handle to take bread out of an oven) and that if he did he should have a hot cake. The ploughman soon put a new handle in it, and soon after a smoking hot cake made its appearance in the furrows near him, which he ate with infinite relish.

Hollingworth Hist of Stowmarket (1844) 248 [Guderon 36-37]

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