Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
![The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 183](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbe/CBE_0190%2FCBE_0190_183.jpg?format=jpg&width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 183
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOn this page
- (continued from previous page)half of hangman's mercy. Two ounces of jailors pity. The wit of a weasel the wool of a frog twentyfour ounces of last novembers fog. A bundle of tailors trimmings, 3 feet 4 inches in circumference, well boiled in the bottom of a wooden iron skillet over a slow stone fire, and reduced to one single dram, well stirred with a hen's tooth and a cat's feather. Give him a taste- spoonful of it at night on the top of a windy ditch and he won't be one bit better in the morning.These are some of the mummers rhymes. I will write the rest of them later on in the end of the book. S.G.