Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
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- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0036
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“There was a woman wan time and had wan son named Mick...”
(continued from previous page)There was another priest and he met a boy on the road who was driving three goats. The boy had an ould cap on him but he never put his hand to it when the priest was passing and of course this didn't please his reverence at all. He was mounted on a fine horse and he got off and he asked the boy did he know anything at all. The boy said he knew a little. "Well" said the priest "you tell he how many persons there are in God?" "Begor I wont" said the lad "because I don't know." "You don't know that?" said the priest, "well tell me how many goats you are driving along the road." "I don't" said the lad. "Oh" said the priest "I don't know what to say to you at all, but I may as well give you a little instruction. Now you are driving three goats along the road do you understand that?" "I do" said the boy. "Count them" said the priest. The boy did so saying, "wan, two three. "Begor" said the priest(continues on next page)