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Saint Patrick

Galway
Lady Gregory, 1926

There were many great saints in Ireland, but Saint Patrick was the bush among them all. He used to be traveling and blessing all before him.

He was about seventy years when God bade him come to Ireland, and he didn't like to be put out of his way, being old, and he said he would not come.

So then God said if he would not come he would give him a bad next-door neighbor that would be fighting and quarreling and slandering him.

So when he heard that, he said it would be as good to go to Ireland.

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From Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland. Ed. W.B. Yeats. New York: Touchstone, 1998.

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