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thing with a turn in her eye trying to sing my songs shed
want to be born all over again and her old green dress
with the lowneck as she cant attract them any other way
like dabbling on a rainy day I see it all now plainly and

they call that friendship killing and then burying one
another and they all with their wives and families at home
more especially Jack Power keeping that barmaid he does
of course his wife is always sick or going to be sick or just
getting better of it and hes a goodlooking man still though
hes getting a bit grey over the ears theyre a nice lot all of
them well theyre not going to get my husband again into
their clutches if I can help it making fun of him then
behind his back I know well when he goes on with his
idiotics because he has sense enough not to squander every
penny piece he earns down their gullets and looks after his
wife and family goodfornothings poor Paddy Dignam all
the same Im sorry in a way for him what are his wife and
5 children going to do unless he was insured comical little
teetotum always stuck up in some pub corner and her or
her son waiting Bill Bailey wont you please come home
her widows weeds wont improve her appearance theyre
awfully becoming though if youre goodlooking what men
wasnt he yes he was at the Glencree dinner and Ben
Dollard base barreltone the night he borrowed the

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