Scoil: Murrintown (uimhir rolla 13707)

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1. Another Story

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Years ago an old man worked at Clanceys of Kates Cross not far from Murrintown.

   He slept on a stable loft. The children of the house often climbed up and played about this loft. They often wondered at black strokes both long and short on the white washed wall. Occasionally these were cleaned off.

   Once they asked him what did the strokes mean, he did not tell them, but they found out. When the wall was rubbed clean of the strokes it remained so for some time. Then they began to appear on it again by (degrees?), sometimes a long stroke, sometimes a short one, made by a blackened stick.

   One day the children cleaned the wall themselves. When the old man found out what they had done the was in terrible grief.

   Then it transpired that these strokes represented his sins. Long strokes mortal sins, and short ones venial sins.

   When he went to Confession he started off (?) with a clean conscience and a clean (?)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Peggie Breen

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

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