School: Glentidaly (roll number 9983)
- Location:
- Glentidaly, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. M. Heron
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1087, Page 236
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- (continued from previous page)falls down as if dead.
Then the doctor is called in and this is his rhyme. -
Here comes I doctor Brown the best doctor in the town saved more men dead then living.
Then the first man asks him where he had travelled:
"I've travelled hickety pickety France and Spain all over Germany and back again."
"I saw houses built with mud and clay and slated all over with pancakes."
"Then what is your medicine doctor", asks the first man.
"Hen pen and turkey treacle, midge's' beef and bumbies' bacon.
Mix that all up with a wild cat's feather and an old sow's bleather.
Clap that on his sole as hot as ever he can those. If that doesn't cure him I'll take no pay.
So rise up Jack and fight your way. If you dont believe in what I say,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Scott Stevenson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygay, Co. Donegal
