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1. Pat the Pork (continued)

   

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   all the fish I have." "I don't believe you" said the poet. "Well I mean it" said the Pork. I won't believe you" said the poet but if you agree to give me the fish into my hands I will make the rhyme." So Pat put all the fish into the poets hands and then the lady was only a few yards away from them. "Now" says Pat "say the rhyme. "No" says the poet. "a poet is always introduced before he says anything at all." "Very good" says the pork I will introduce you." He went up to the lady and he took off his cap and says he "Here is a wonderful poet" says he to the lady "and he has a poem made now that will suit you." "Oh that is grand said the lady "for I love poetry"
   So there the poet started off and his eyes on Pat the pork.
   "Pat the Pork you are no joke
   If I am not mistaken

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   14 December 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Tadhg Deveraux