` You must first give some more samples of your skill , ' said the Governor , trying to speak him fair , ` for what you did to-day was no such very great thing after all . Could n't you play off a really good trick on the Priest ? for he is sitting inside there and calling me a fool for having let myself be taken in by such a fellow as you . ' ` Well , it would n't be very hard to do that , ' said the Master Thief . So he dressed himself up like a bird , and threw a great white sheet over himself ; broke off a goose 's wings , and set them on his back ; and in this attire climbed into a great maple tree which stood in the Priest 's garden . So when the Priest returned home in the evening the youth began to cry , ` Father Lawrence ! Father Lawrence ! ` for the Priest was called Father Lawrence . ` 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 .
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