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   that tares and stamps with itch and cratche
   With spavin splints and farcied legs, that swell as thick as wooden kegs
   But one thing they can eat their fill two horses share wont ring their mill.
   Sometime ago my uncle Tom from them procured a breeding ram.
   With chocolate face and wiry wool and horse like worms of a still.
   But from the pens he did escape, and dashing from the railway gate.
   He swam the Finn and on did roam, where decent sheep grazed in a holm.
   Then charging like a furious bull, he broke his pale faced brothers skull.
   And for what I cant tell, but have the ranting all himsel
   And tho he cost some seven pounds his gets are not worth half a crown.
   But still their gifts are not all oer for now we've got an approved boar.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Tom Gillespie

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   56

   Address

   Sessiagh (O'Neill), Co. Donegal