Scoil: Pitfield, Inis (uimhir rolla 11091)

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1. The Creeper

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Another horse that Gavin owned at one time was "The Creeper"
   I often heard of her from my father and other men of that generation
   Here under are some verses composed by her owner W. Gavin.

   The Creeper

   I once had a little mare called the "Creeper"
   A fourteen hands high little black
   She carried me for many a season
   As a huntress as well as a hack.

   Now you'll scarcely believe what I tell you
   I rode her fourteen stone or more
   And when meeting with horses of quality
   She was only a pigmy to score.

   But when hounds were running their hardest
   Their quality was of little avail
   As she showed them her heels o'er the country
   Wherever we met without fail

   One day I will always remember
   With Dick Stockpoole's hounds we were out

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Thomas Meaney

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Gairm bheatha

   Teacher (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Cloondrinagh, Co. Clare