School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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- (continued from previous page)Ballymote. They drank the money and made up their minds to destroy the dog when they would go home.
They got a rope to hang the dog and put it up on a tree. The dog started leaping and jumping and broke the rope and ran to the back-door saying "Whilst there is life there is hope" This is the song:-
It was Dwyer the invincible,
And OHara from the town,
That planned the whole thing,
And drank the half-crown.
If I had lived much longer
As you would plainly see.
I'd bite and bark at dyer
And likewise Mathew B_.
The "feeden" that they gave me,
Was turf_mould mixed with clods
And I was always a laughing stock
For the Ballybrennan dogs.(continues on next page)
