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   The neighbours on their beds at night,
   To sleep they are afraid,
   Because you never know the hour,
   That he carried out his raid,
   One very cold and stormy night,
   Not very long ago,
   This donkey with a comrade,
   To Campbells straight did go,
   They first attacked a stack of oats,
   Their hunger to subdew,
   And next part of a potato heap,
   And disappeared from view.
   Early next morning poor Campbell he went out
   To view his little property,
   And have a look about,
   A heap of straw he did espy,

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Philip Brady

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   14

   Address

   Middletown, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   James Brennan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Derries, Co. Cavan