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1. A Local Fox-Chase (continued)

   

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   Make way for bold Reynard o'er hills, dales or rocks.

   
   V

   Thro' the covert the music grows fainter and fainter,
   Has Callaghan failed to stop all the earths?
   By jove! if he has, but this veteran wood-ranger,
   Will lose a nice job and the easiest of berths.

   
   VII

   No! hark to that shout from the greatest of horsemen,
   As Townsend of Myross sings out tally-ho,
   And listen again to Burn's answering horn,
   Saying he's gone far away on the coach-road below.

   
   VIII

   Over Leap's craggy hillside the music is thrilling
   With huntsmen and hounds going gallantly on,
   And past Shepperton Lakes, oh! the pace it is killing,
   With Miss Smyth of Downeen closing up in the van.

   
   VIV

   How oft' by those waters she has met and beat them
   And shall we to-day forget "Auld Lang Syne,
   When gallant Maria led the bravest of horsemen,
   And captured the brush on the banks of Lough Ine.

   

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nóra Ní Airtnéadaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Aghills, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Nóra Ní Airtneadaigh

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   60

   Address

   Aghills, Co. Cork