-33- old alike, and it*is not surprising -that the atone outside his 300* uas worn from the stamp of countleea foot. *t v-'aa to this bouse* too* that the pastors of the perish came, all of them* for a quiet firoside chat* Sterrell ttos a fiddler of the old school* and v/hat ho could do with the bow vrill long reoain a tender aeoory. Greatly sought for ausicsl eneageraBnts* he was reluctant to appear on stager* X >referring to operate fs-caa the platforra of his kitchen couoh* -Joe is remembered most of all for his service to his Church, For alaost forifr-five years ha 3ang morning £fess and in all that period tbs num¬ ber of tSoes missed through Ms failing could "be counted on one Izwd* It coeiaed providential that ths last funeral bald by Father XioCarihy before his transfer in 1952* following nineteen sports in thS parish*- v/as that of his stalwart« Joe Sarrell * iihe other notable wea Sot Bolger* a character such aa one aould tope to find in my good novel* A Dohooloaator by profession* he uos also a fiddler of reasonable proportions* la addition ha vma a fid- die maker* Shis industry be pursued while residing at Fatrell's*- oad today there can still be found sections of unfinished instruments in ths upstairs of this vacant house, After varnishing tho completed products* Iblger used to hang them to dry on Carroll's bsrai- Knowing tha man* and finding a ready supply of flint stones not far retcovod, the youngsters of the day occasionally found an appropriate outlet for thair exuberant energies. Ba.t Balger v/as endowed V 7itn one spe¬ cial talent* and for this his noma is still caarmplace today*, lb was a handwriting export. Wherever be taught school he stressed end