Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0456
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“There was once a man and he would put to death...”
(continued from previous page)or four times, and the boy whistled away to himself and shaved away and didn't care what he was doing. At last the man took up the gun and says he "I've advised you to be careful three or four times and you won't mind me. Now remember, if I shoot you you won't be the first I shot over this business". "Well" says the boy "what did you say to me when I started to shave you? that if I cut you you would shoot me". It will be time enough for you to do that when I have cut you". He shaved away then until he was finished and the man got up and looked at himself in the glass. "You did a good job" says he to the boy. "But if you had as much as given me one sear I would have shot you". "There would have been no fear at all of that " says the(continues on next page)