Father O’Dwyer, a former parish priest of Eniskeny, gave a carman, who had driven him home on a wet day, a glass of whisky. He begged for another glass. Father O’Dwyer, who knew* that the man was fond of spirits, refused, and still holding the decanter in his hand, said: “Every’ glass of that you drink is a nail in your coffin.” “Why, then, your riverence,” said the man. "as you have the hammer in your hand, you moight as well droive another nail into It.’’
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White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 389, 18 December 1927, Page 3
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