Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0437
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“There was a kind of a fool...”
(continued from previous page)own people if he met the priest on the road to make sure and rise his hat to him. Tom asked them how would he know that it was the priest that was in it. They told him that he had a shaky head, a big nose, and a collar turned the wrong way on him.
Tom went off to the mill one day and he met a priest on the road, but it wasn't the right priest. He didn't rise his hat anyway, and the priest knew that he was a kind of a fool and went up to him and says he "Why didn't you rise your hat when you met me"? "Oh" says the boy "sure I'll do it now. You have the collar turned the wrong way aright, but you haven't a shaky head or a big nose". The priest knew well enough who he meant and he commenced to laugh