` Who is calling me ? ' said the Priest . ' I am an angel sent to announce to thee that because of thy piety thou shalt be taken away alive into heaven , ' said the Master Thief . ` Wilt thou hold thyself in readiness to travel away next Monday night ? for then will I come and fetch thee , and bear thee away with me in a sack , and thou must lay all thy gold and silver , and whatsoever thou may ` st possess of this world 's wealth , in a heap in thy best parlour . ' So Father Lawrence fell down on his knees before the angel and thanked him , and the following Sunday he preached a farewell sermon , and gave out that an angel had come down into the large maple tree in his garden , and had announced to him that , because of his righteousness , he should be taken up alive into heaven , and as he thus preached and told them this everyone in the church , old or young , wept . On Monday night the Master Thief once more came as an angel , and before the Priest was put into the sack he fell on his knees and thanked him ; but no sooner was the Priest safely inside it than the Master Thief began to drag him away over stocks and stones . ` Oh ! oh ! ` cried the Priest in the sack . ` Where are you taking me ? ' ` This is the way to heaven . The way to heaven is not an easy one , ' said the Master Thief , and dragged him along till he all but killed him . At last he flung him into the Governor 's goose-house , and the geese began to hiss and peck at him , till he felt more dead than alive . ` Oh ! oh ! oh ! Where am I now ? ' asked the Priest . ` Now you are in Purgatory , ' said the Master Thief , and off he went and took the gold and the silver and all the precious things which the Priest had laid together in his best parlour .
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