Volume: CBÉ 0221

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   “I sent in all the old mummers' rhymes...”

   

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   I sent in all the old mummers' rhymes, and in one half of them where the Emperor of Russia knock down the Grand Signeor, the following is said by the former:

   In dow dug day ho'er day, the pig of ponts, a little frog lived in a well, a little white duck picked him up, and holem holem hook and neanenger yer present me your word and I shall fight thee him. You my tight hardy fellow you came here from the baehsede of Ireland, to be slaughtered by the Great Emeror of Russia.

   

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   Date

   17 July 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Liam de Buitléir

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   “There was a house in Ballamonin and they used to give out the stirabout...”

   

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   There was a house in Ballamonin and they used to give out the stirabout in the Famine time. They used to boil the stirabout in a great big to boiler and then they would sell it out in waggon.

   

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