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   “Long ago when Our Lord was going about on earth, he met two men on the road one day.”

   

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   Eight o'clock at night, and there was quite a large number of men from the country districts collected there. Among them was a local character named John Blake, who answers invariably to the name Darby. He lives on his wits which are sometimes flavoured with acidity, has a fluent tongue, a ready response and a long thirst. I had not been very long in the company when Darby told the story I give below. I did not think much of it at the time, indeed I believed it was of his own invention, and so it passed out of my mind until quite recently looking through Béaldoideas for Meitheamh 1931, I saw from the pen of An Seabhach, a slightly varied version of the same story form Corca Dhuibhne. When I had read the Corca Dhuibhne version which is called "Conus a tháinig an tFainne ar an Eaglais". I at once recalled Darby's telling, and give it herewith, second hand from Wm. Corkery of Croom, who had already heard it from another source:

   Long ago when Our Lord was going about on earth, he met two men on the road one day. One of them was a wretched drunkard, and the other a cripple who was a miser as well. The two of them asked Our Lord for a little help. He put His hand in His pocked and gave the drunkard a shilling, but he gave the cripple only a penny. When the cripple saw what Our Lord did, he asked Him why it was that He only gave him a penny, while

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   Language

   English

   Informant

   John Blake

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   67

   Address

   Croom, Co. Limerick