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Written by John McCullagh   
Monday, 21 March 2005

He handles his feet bravely  he dances well


He’s like a Daddy-Long-Legs on the skite   [?]


Childer and chickens must always be picking


Don’t be there till ye’re back


You might as well look for blood in a turnip   a vain proposition


You’re not sugar or salt till be melting      a rain shower won’t wash ye away


You’ll be glad of your bed, I’ll warrant ye


Them that wouldn’t fight for their mate [meat] wouldn’t fight for their country


‘Grannie, I don’t like you in your grandeur – you don’t smell nearly so strong’


Just by chanst, as the cow kilt the hare


The Universe is walking in and out through all the windows


Ye’d o’ thought she was laying a duck’s egg, be the squeals o’ her


He’d put ye in mind of a goat eating whins [said of a mumbling man at prayer]


She’d a face on her like one chewing wasps


She’d a neck on her like an Antrim goat

She cud ate beans from a churn


Ye’d have me believe that goose’s dung is strawberries


He’s a big baghel of a man


Beetleheads  tadpoles


Grabboughs  rough and stony waste land


Whommel  to turn over quickly





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