“And the priests, with awe,
As such freaks they saw,
Said, “The Devil must be in that little Jackdaw!””

— Richard Harris Barham

Poem: The Jackdaw of Rheims http://www.bartleby.com/246/108.html

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British writer and priest 1788–1845

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