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1. The Dingle Puck Goat (continued)

   

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   This daring old fellow, I stood and I stared him,
   While I knew that I feared the monster to see;
   He wore a long "meggle" as grey as a badger;
   That would reach from Dingle as far as Tralee.
   He ‘ad a pair of long horns like any two bayonets,
   And just like a needle they were at the top;
   And sure you may be that a week you’d be laughing,
   If just he could on you but once get the drop.

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   I made myself known to the owner that held him,
   And a bargain we struck without much delay;
   He said “As you paid me

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Ní Griobhtha

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Canearagh, Co. Kerry