--- On Wed, 1/16/13, Riobard O' Dwyer <[email protected]> wrote: From: Riobard O' Dwyer <[email protected]> Subject: [BEARA] The beginning of the story To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 3:54 PM *   Just in from Bantry Hospital, and then to a (funeral) removal in Castletownbere, and we must head off to a Cork City Hospital very early tomorrow morning* ----  *Joan happened to fracture just above the ankle. But I had made you a promise that I would get my story started for you --- and I like to keep a promise, if I can at all. Time, unfortunately, forces me to begin only the beginning for the moment. *   Ardgroom Village in the Beara Peninsula lies in County Cork, but just over the County Kerry border. In it lived many, many years ago a small lad who his mother described as being a bit "arch" !! ---- and whose name was Riobard (O'Dwyer) ---- me.    An example of this was:- When going to the Primary School at about 10 years of age, there happened to be another lad in my own class by the name of Vincie (Jer Denny) Harrington, about 10 years of age also.    One day in class, the teacher was telling us that Our Lord died on the Cross, and was buried, but that He rose again after 3 days. Vincie and I decided that we would test out to see if Kate O'Hara's duck would be as powerful with those wonderful deeds as Our Lord. Kate O'Hara was an old lady who had a small shop in the Village, She had some ducks in her backyard. So Vincie and I took the "loan" of one of Kate O'Hara's ducks to try out a test if Kate O'Hara' duck would have the same power as Our Lord, as regards Our Lord's wonderful deeds. Off we went with the duck to a small field behind the Village; dug a big hole; and buried Kate O'Hara's duck in it. We waited for 3 days to see if the duck would then arise like Our Lord. But, when we arrived at the duck's "graveyard", and dug up the "grave" to see if  the duck was able to perform the same miracle as Our Lord did --- but, alas, the duck was still there as dead as the day we buried her. That certainly proved to us that Our Lord had far more power than Kate O'Hara's duck !!!    More to follow, when I have the chance.                       ---- Riobard ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message