THE MINISTREL.
PADDY AND BIDDY.
(From the " London Miscellany.")
Young Paddy McShane, shure no lad could, be bolder.
Coaxed Biddy O'Hea to be sharing his lot, And Fat had a lively young pig on his shoulder,
And she on her head bore a big iron po+. From the town, just at nightfall, as home tbey were walking, rgThrough a dark lonely thicket their winding path lay j Biddy Bat down the po* - , stopped her laughing and talking,
Paddy turned round and ax'd her the cause of delay. "Och,"eaid she, "I'm afraid youll be acting uncivil. I'll not go alone through the thicket wid you, For Paddy avick, you'r as wild as the divil ; " You'll he kissing and squazing me, that's what you'll do 1' "But the pig," replied Pat, "that I've lugged so securely, If h.oae, back to town like the divil he'd trot." ' ■ Och. Paddy," Baid she, as she glanced up demurely, " Shure coudln'tye's put the pig under the pot ?"
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 716, 18 January 1877, Page 3
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161THE MINISTREL. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 716, 18 January 1877, Page 3
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