Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0113
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“There was aphriesht in Rhivershtown at wan time...”
(continued from previous page)that, But its is sure is I have this spade in me hand St Antony was hare in this garden wit his book an beads, an' him in his bare feet, an' he tould me the exact words that I'm afther tellin you."
The phriesht saw that there was no more use in arguin' wit him, so he went in ta the house, an' brought him out wan o' his very expensive pipes, an' Micheal was very thankful to him
The nexht day Micheal didn't turn up for work, an' the phriesht wastn't very long goin' about his daily rounds, when he met a sthrange man comin' along smokin' the very pipe that he gave to Micheal the day before. Twas the nexht day before he met Micheal, an' the firsht queshtion that he asked him was "Why did you give your pipe away Micheal, I thought you told me that you wanted it for yourself."
"So I did too" sez Micheal "But when I went home that night, me wife tould me that there wastn't a grain o' flour in the house ta make a bit o' bread, for either hershrel or the childhre, or mesel, so I prayed to St Antony to send me the price o' a bag, an' I hadn't the prayer hardly finished, when this man, walked in on the dure, an' he asks me, if I'd sell him me pipe. Well knowin' that it was a good wan, I(continues on next page)