HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



carcasses, and there was one continuous line of 

 tents stretched from east to west of the course in 

 which many a rustic couple figured away in reels, 

 jigs, and hornpipes to the well known airs of 

 ' Shiver the Quilt,' ' Father Jack Walsh,' ' My 

 duck's in the house,' ' The Night of the Fun ' etc. 

 etc. to the astonishment and delight of the circum- 

 ambulatory natives." 



We have also the advantage of the same journal's 

 observations upon the meeting held at Kilcock 

 in 1833. 



We'd many a stiff necked brat of a dandy 

 Lots of Parliament, potheen and brandy. 

 Carloads of nieces and country cousins 

 Jingles and old charabangs in dozens, 

 Bogtrotters, turf cutters, butchers and bakers. 

 Jackasses, parsons, a few undertakers; 

 Pawnbrokers pledging their honour and word; 

 Pickpockets found you wherever you stirred. 

 Some girls handsome and some girls shy 

 Whose names you shall have in print by and 



bye; 

 Country attorneys and country squireens, 

 Jarveys and donkeys and one horse machines; 

 Some people sober and some people drunk, 

 Unlucky gamesters in a hell of a funk. 

 Sugarstick, gingerbread not at all spiced. 

 Cripples on crutches, legs broken and spliced. 



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