Jusht anehter wan, Its only a little short wan, an' I'll tell it ta ye quick, for I was alot tougher that I thought Iwould be at the lasht wan.
I spose ye often heard tell o' the "Buachaillin a'cruice Well its on the top o' Croagh Pathrick that he lives an' he is always said ta cry before any sad event occours in Ireland. Inever heard him mesel, but I often heard tell o' people that did.
Anyway they say this is how he came to be÷
Apoor man an his wife war livin at Croagh Patrick, an' they had wan son, who was acripple from his birth Anyways is the yhears went on the cripple became more conthrary, an' the poor father an' mother felt morthall unhappy, that when they'd die, they'd have no wan to luk afther their poor crippled son, an' they often hoped that he'd die, rather than be left in bad hands.
Anyhow ta make along sthory short, an' a short sthory sweet, Wan day the father was out, an' he came in for something in ahurry. The mother was out too, so that the cripple was alone be himsel in the house. The father was nearly in on the dure, when he heard this grand music bein' played in the kitchen. He looked in an there was awhole band o' little men, an' them, playin all kinds o' musical instruments, an' there was about a

An old soldier who was afther comin' home from the war went to confession to a priest in Riverstown. It seems he had some very grave sin to tell, an' the Penence the priest left on him was to do the Stations of the Cross. The ould soldier never heard tell o' the Stations, never mind to know how to do them, so when he got the priest gone to his dinner, he went is far is a neighbour o his - an ould man who was at confession also. An' he asked him, how to do the Station.
The ould man who was a noted rogue, said that he'd show him, how, so he got up out of his sate and told the ould soldier ta shtand before the Station an' 'Fence' while he'd kneel down and pray.
The soldier did as he was tould, but they had only got is far is the third Station, when who should arrive but the priest, back again from his dinner, an' he went is far is the pair, an' questioned them, fot they war up ta, an' he gave both o' them a good chastisin' for their vagaries, especially, the rogue, an he tould the ould soldier, that he'd have ta go to the 'Reek', to do Penence for his bad conduct. (He meant Croagh Patrick). The soldier walked out of the church, downcast enough but when the priest came out afther hearin' confessions, he got one of the biggest surprises of his life, when he