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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Oct 31, 2023, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2AF0D56C0013255C7000040B638F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > "In the merry month of June from me home I started   
   > Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted   
   > Saluted Father dear, kissed me darling mother   
   > Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother   
   > Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born   
   > Cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins   
   > A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs   
   > Frightenin' all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin   
   >   
   > One two three four five   
   > Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road   
   > And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!”   
      
   The way to banish ghosts and goblins who show up on   
   your doorstep this evening is to give them a sweet treat. :-)   
      
   Samhain Blessings to any readers!   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;   
   And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)