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Rh. I have seen plenty of angels.

. Do you bring luck to the angels too?

. Oh, no, no! No one could do that. But they are always there if one looks about one; they are like the blades of grass.

. When do you see them?

. When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars—not like the seven that move, but like the fixed stars.

. And what happens then?

. Then all in a minute one smells summer flowers, and tall people go by, happy and laughing, and their clothes are the colour of burning sods.

. Is it long since you have seen them, Teigue the Fool?

. Not long, glory be to God! I saw one coming behind me just now. It was not laughing, but it had clothes the colour of burning sods, and there was something shining about its head.

. Well, there are your four pennies. You, a fool, say 'Glory be to God,' but before I came the wise men said it. Run away now. I must ring the bell for my scholars.

. Four pennies! That means a great