THL PIG AND THE POT
Young Paddy M'Bhane, ture bo ltd could be bolder, Coaxed Biddy M'Shae toU,hiring bis lot, * And Pat had a lirely young pig on hit shoulder, And she on her head bore a bis iron pot. • From town, jmt at nightfall, as home they were walking, / Through a dark lonely thicket their winding path lay j Biddy aetdowa the. pot, .■topped her laughing and talking,. .. Paddy turned round and ax'd the came of delay. « Och," caid «he. «• I'm afraid you'll be aehngjwoiviL ' I'll not go alone through the tbioket wid you, For, Paddy avick. you're at wild at the divil;
"But the pig," replied p a t;« that.lVe lugged so securely, If loose, back to town like the diril he'd trot." . " Och, Faddy," said she, as she gl«noed up demurely, "Shure oouldn't ye's put the xAa under the pofcP" ** —Grey Star.
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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1687, 30 May 1874, Page 2
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145THL PIG AND THE POT Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1687, 30 May 1874, Page 2
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