Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 3)

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1. Story of Priest in Michelstown Chapel (continued)

   

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   When Mass was over the curate asked him in the name of God why it was that he was continually coming on the altar saying Mass. He told him that he was coming there for years every day to say that Mass but he could get no one to answer it 'til now. He said he was paid to say that Mass while he was in this world but he forgot or neglected to say it. But he said he was all right now, that he had no more trouble on him.

   

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   “Mu grandfather was a first cousin to Dean O'Brien of Mitchelstown.”

   

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   My grandfather was a first cousin to Dean O'Brien of Mitchelstown.
   When the Dean was dying my father went to see him. He was a very old man at the time.
   "Well Johnny," says the Dean, "I'm going to die very soon."
   "Well," says me father, "you're a very old man and you got a fine old age"
   He was living there in the Presbetry; and as they

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   English

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   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • James Carey