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   it all to pay for tape.
   I listened to a set of gulls, commending the polled angus bulls.
   They said that sales were very slack, because our cattle was not black.
   And mentioned men of brain and taste, who could select a well bred beast.
   They did and sent us one last time, some fifty guineas was his cost.
   With a pedigree eye two feet long, of his ancestors sire and dam.
   And I like many another fool, did patronise this premium bull.
   When nine months had gone out of sight, a calf arrived twas black and white.
   The next two made me scratch my head, for both of them were ashy red.
   I'm waiting on another tight, and hoping that it wont be white.
   When told by way of an apology, they quoted freaks from geneology.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Tom Gillespie

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   56

   Address

   Sessiagh (O'Neill), Co. Donegal