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1. Mummers' Rhymes (continued)

   

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   palsy and the gout and if the divil is in I run him out. The bollig eagle lame or blind, the deaf or dumb or loose behind. I can cure a jealous wife and make her lead a pious life. My Granny's brains I did pull out, I went and washed them at the spout. They weren't sound I left them there and filled the holes with hedgehogs hair. Her clatterin tongue her teeth pulled out I fixed 4 gate posts in her mouth. I bestowed her two cats eyes and ever since she's twice as wise.

   (Cap) That's all right doctor but you haven't told me what medicine you use.
   (Doc) An ounce and a

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   History Edit

   Date

   6 May 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Eamonn Ó Mirneagh