School: Rathowen (B) (roll number 5101)
- Location:
- Rathowen, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Mc Garry
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0741, Page 245
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Last winters snow left provisions so low
Poor Paddy was eat out complately
The snow coming down he could not go to town
Thoughts of hunger did bother him greatly
One night as he lay dreaming away
About ghosts fairies spirits and witches
He heard an uproar just outside the door
And he jumped up to pull on his ould breeches(4)
Says Brian McGuirk with a voice like a Turk
Pray get up and get us some ating
Says big Andy Moore I'll burst open the door
For this is no night to be waiting
Scarce had he spoke when the door it were broke
And they crowded around Paddy like leeches
By the great mortial gob if he didn't get tem prog
They'd eat him clean out of his breeches. (5)
Now Paddy in dread slipped up to the bed
That held Judy his own darling wife in.
And there they agreed to get them a feed.
So he slipped out and brought a big knife in
He took up the waist of the breeches the baste
And cut the buttons and stitches(continues on next page)
- Collector
- T.F. Mc Garry
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Rathowen, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Bernard Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Windtown, Co. Westmeath
