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   He met a English cockney.
   With a donkey selling delph.
   This English cockney could not let Paddy pass.
   Why go speak to your brother.
   And he pointed to the ass.

   III
   Begob said Patt I never thought.
   I had a brother here.
   Going over and whispering something in the ass's ear.
   The ass went mad upset the cart.
   And broke all the earthenware.
   And set the English Cockney.
   Frantic and wild in air.

   IV
   The next day Patt was taken
   His trial for to stand.
   Come now and tell me here every word you whispered in the donkey's ear.
   Indeed your honour that request I wont refuse.
   You often heard of donkeys being very fond of news.

   V
   I told him that in Ireland
   We had our land suppressed.
   And that by English beggars our land it is infested.
   The magistrate hung down his head.
   And could not keep from laughing.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Katty Heerey

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Clonkeiffy, Co. Cavan