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1. Paying the Rent (continued)

   

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   VI Well you do look like a foreigner, and that you can't deny, With your various peculiarities, likewise your foreign eye, Perhaps you were out at Babylon to cure some slow decline, Or with the Turks at mecca, to see that old ancient shrine. VII Well then boys, I can assure you that I never left my home, And if ever I get back again abroad I will not [?] O' to think that I'm a foreigner, 'tis all a deceit, But I wonder what keeps the Clerk with my rent receipt." Poor Paddy waited all day long to get back his commands, But the corner-boys soon tricked him as they disappeared in bands, He shouts up to O'Connell, "Send me down my rent receipt, Or 'pon my soul tils very soon I'll face to face you meet. VIII I met a Peeler on his beat, I told him I pair my rent

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Áine Ní Chathasaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Occupation

   Iníon feirmeora

   Address

   Annagh, Co. Clare

   Collector

   M. Ó Críocháin

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   James Honan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   74

   Address

   Caherogan, Co. Clare