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As Brian Boru Gallagher studied the magazines his uncle sent from America, his wonderment grew until he could hold it no longer. "Look at the pictures of a city, of a size and splendor to cover the whole world! There be's snow-white stoves for cooking, with never a sign of turf or coal-burning under them. There be's places called bathrooms, with color on the floors and walls as gay as a hummingbird. And look you here, granda—there stands a closet-thing as white as the stove, with the door open so a body can see eatables and drinkables fit for a king.
"Motorcars, every color of the rainbow, that lie along the roads as thick as a whin along the bogs!"
When he found that he was really going to America and would behold all these amazing things—and more besides—he became greatly concerned about what he could take along to prove that Ireland, in its way, was just as wonderful a place.
With great difficulty—for Brian Boru was noted for his knowledge but not for his courage—he captured a wee fairyman and took him in a teapot all the way to Maine, U.S.A.
There between them they turned Lobster Cove topsy-turvy with the fairyman's magic and Brian Boru's good-will, until every lad and lass was enchanted—as you will be too!
—from the dust jacket
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