School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)And in that class this blooming lass
Has opposition plenty.
Once from the slips away she slips,
Unto the swine a pearl,
They say the wind she leaves behind,
So swift is Bunty Girl.
(iii)
For final tie she got a bye
To meet the dog called Tinker
From Roseybrook, that cosy nook
They said he was a clinker.
Bets were laid on at ten to one
By Jones, by Smyth and Berrill
And I laid down my bottom crown
And won on Bunty Girl.
- It would seem that Peter Kerr of Ardee was, to say the least, slow at paying hes debts. He owed McCann, an Ardee draper, for clothing and from Ben Turner he got a tricycle for which, when matters were getting hot, he offered as instalment a ram's skin. McCann made the following verse:
If you have a bill for Peter Kerr,
You may go and mark it "Paid"-
Of a barrister or gripper(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roseybrook, Co. Louth
