Volume: CBÉ 0312
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0312, Page 0157
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“In West Clare there lived a young chap about sixteen years of age.”
(continued from previous page)a while and recovered hinself agin, and he went over to where the father and mother was in bed and he told them to get up. And they told him to go out. So he came out agin and sat down by the fire, and after a while he was pickin up courage and he asked the young fella what was troubling him. So he said: "There isn't much troubling me. If you promise to say three Hail Marys for forty days I'll go to Heaven. There's nothing else to bother me". So the travellin' man promised to say the three Hail Marys, and said them for the forty days. But he never went back there to get a night's lodgings agin.