School: Rathwire (C.) (roll number 8416)
- Location:
- Rathwire, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. Caffrey
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- (continued from previous page)I am the receiver
Said Dominic Boyle
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He went to the barber
To get himself shaved
They shaved off his whiskers
And gapped all his hair
He went to the terminus
Ever so far
He raised up his stick
In sweet Mullingar
Going on in the carriage
He kept them amused
With the verse of a song
And the squeal of a flute
He stood up in the carriage
Saying I have the money
To h--- with the "coult"
1V
When he landed in Dublin
He bethought of the fair
He went down to Church Street
And pawned the cavison there
Going down the street
With his coat in his hand(continues on next page)- Collector
- Lizzie Glynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Thomastown, Co. Westmeath