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Title: Real life in Ireland : or, The day and night scenes, rovings, rambles, and sprees, bulls, blunders, bodderation and blarney, of Brian Boru, esq., and his elegant friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty ; exhibiting a real picture of characters, manners, etc., in high and low life in Dublin and various parts of Ireland, embellished with humorous coloured engravings, from original designs by the most eminent artists
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Subjects: Horses Ireland -- Description and travel Ireland -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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, but now 7educed to sell water-grassin the streets of Belfast, through Phelim her drunkenhusband, who had not left her the value of a coppercrawly to keep her out of the sleiigh (ditch) of despair.Theres Belfast, said Peg, as they rose over thesummit of Hungry Hill, and there have I beenmoiling all day for the value of a hog and a penny(fourteen pence) that Phelim will swallow at onegulp. Brian, who knew too little of life to be ashamedwithout cause, drove in broad daylight, with Peg at hisback, up to the door of the Donegal Arms, from thewindow of which in the course of an hour he beheldPeg and her husband quarrelling for the ten-pennieshe had given her. Brian was in his own countryaccounted a poet, and had gained many a pretty girlsheart by jinghng rhymes in her ear to some favouritetune. If he did not write as well as Tommy Moore,he pleased those he wrote for as well, and havingnothing to amuse himself with, he invoked his Museto assist him in the praise of Mr. and Mrs, OShambles.
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I I I LIFE IN IRELAND SONG MRS. 0SHAMBLES, THE PRIDE OF BELFAST Tune— Come haste to the Wedding. OCH, Phelim OShambles ! och, Phelim, my jewel 1 Says Mrs. OShambles, the pride of Belfast,How can you be every day taking your gruel ? Twelve naggins and more, fait ! it never can last;I moil and I toil like a griffin from Connaught, Morn, evening, and night, does my tongue never stop.And \.\\t peivter hard earned, ye go drinking upon it, While Mrs. OShambles cant spring at a drop. To my kill me now, arrah do, wid your cold water now, Water s a drink only fit for a whale,Boney got beat at the poor game of Water-loo, Whiskey had brought him off clean as a nail. It was fifteen good pounds, that I brought you by marriage, A cabin, a garden, and bonny moyld cow,Three beautiful children, forbye a miscarriage, My grandfathers boar, and my uncle Pats sow ;And you, faith and truth, your own self twas I got, Without rag to your back, I d three gowns to my waist.Of the best second hand, and ye paw

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