What is recorded here

Mother Nature claims the lead on this one. The fairies flew in at dusk, poured soil like batter, packed it firm before midnight and vanished before dawn. They left a round wall standing in Leadmore West, smooth-edged and proud, with no gate visible and no shadow at noon. Humans came later, measured it, argued it and wrote it down. The fairies never corrected a single claim.

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