Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
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- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 288
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“A poor boy one time went out to seek his fortune. ”
(continued from previous page)day he was walking away and he tired and hungry and no one to console him. When he was about an hour on the road he met a man and they started talking. Bill told him he was in great trouble and explained everything to him. "Well" says the man "I'll give you a chance of making some some money". "Very good" says Bill. "Which do you think is the right thing do so, to go to Mass on Sunday or lie in bed". "Oh to go to Mass what else" says the boy. "That's what you say" says the man but it's not what everybody around here says. "I'll bet you a pound that everybody around here says that it is better to lie in bed than go to Mass". Poor Bill was a(continues on next page)