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Ruckard Drury.(Poem)

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| May 01, 2006 | Fitzmaurice, Gabriel | COPYRIGHT 2006 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
RUCKARD DRURY 
 
   Ruckard Drury, spailpin, 
   Laboured all his life 
   For pig-ignorant farmers. 
   One day, a farmer's wife 
 
   Had Drury at her table, 
   Her fare was tea and bread 
   But she served him up bad butter 
   Which Ruckard Drury fed 
 
   To a farm-cat at the doorway 
   And when the wife saw that, 
   She turned on the spailpin 
   Who replied: "Do you see that cat? 
 
   You gave me rotten butter; 
   You saw what he did, no doubt-- 
   That cat there ...

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