I'm thinking the thing might be managed.' 'But, Father Moran------' 'Ah now, will you be quiet when I bid you?
I haven't the money myself.
Never a penny have I been able to save all my life, with the calls there are on me in a parish like this.

Sure, you know yourself how it is.
There's one will have a cow that has died on him, and another will be wanting a lock of potatoes for seed in the springtime; and if it isn't that, it'll be something else.

And who would the creatures go to in their trouble but the old priest that christened and married the most of them?
But, indeed, thanks be to God, things is improving.

The fishing brings in a lot of money to the men, and there's a better breed of cattle in the country now, and the pigs fetch a good price since we had the railway to Clifden, and maybe the last few years I might have saved a little, but I didn't.

Indeed, I don't know where it is the money goes at all, but someway it's never at rest in my breeches pockets till it's up and off somewhere.