School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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- XML “The Dirty and Clean Sheep”
- XML “Marrying the Nine Daughters”
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- Marrying the Nine Daughters.One man, the father, sits in the middle of the floor and is surrounded by his nine daughters who are well armed with sticks or belts. One man, (say a cobbler) comes in and says:
"There comes and old cobbler
so neat and so fine
Coming to court your nine daughters divine"
And the father replies:
"I'll set my nine daughters
Right down by my knee,
and damn the old cobbler will get one from me
You may ask no lodgings here, for you get no lodgings here, here, here.(continues on next page)