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Then away she went home, and at the back door
She patiently waited an hour or more;
For a pint of peppermint then away she ran.
For to treat this pretty'Uttle dog's meat man.
Then she went in all bathed in tears.
Her former hopes transform'd to fears,
The cats and the dog a row began.
As much as to say, Where's your dog's meat man
Oh ! you nasty dirty little dog's meat man !
You ugly little swindUng dog's meat man !
For somebody had given her to understand,
He already had a wife and seven pretty Uttle dog's
meat mans.
Billy O^Rourke.
Faith I graased my brogues and took my stick the
twentieth day of May, sirs,
Then aflT to Dublin town I tripp'd to walk upon the
sae, sirs.
To see if I could get employ to cut their hay and
corn, sirs,
To pick up pence upon the sae the cockneys I might
larn, sirs.
With my phillaloo and heart so true,
Arrah ! Billy O'Rourke tlie Bochlc.
gave the captain six thirteens, to carry me o'er to
Porgate,
But before we got one half o' the road the wind it
blew at a hard rate.
The sticks that grcxv up through the ship they sang
out like a whistle.
And the sailors all, both great and smaU, they swore,
We's gi)ing to the devil.
Withniv nhillalacL &XL.