Volume: CBÉ 0221
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“There were a crowd of fellows wan time went fishing...”
(continued from previous page)a frightful gale, and they just got home safely.
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“There is a man living at Kilmore by the name of Pat Walsh...”
There is a man living at Kilmore by the name of Pat Walsh, and he is a sailor. One night they were on a ship and the wind was blowing a heavy gale and the rope that was holding the stays ail gave way. Pat went and started to make fast the rope and as he was doing it there was a man holding the light to him. Now this man wasn't belonging to the ship Pat knew and he also knew that the lamp didn't belong to it, for it gave forth a beautiful light. Pat himself says that it was his guardian angel came to help him. Pat will tell anybody that it was none of the members of the ship.