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Make me a bannock and cut me a callop, till I go away and push my fortune." The mother did this and asked her would she have half of the bannock with her blessing or the whole bannock without. She said: "I will have half of the bannock with your blessing, mother." The mother gave her a blessing and half a bannock, and she set out.
"Him followed mony foul drunkart With can and callop, cup and quart, In surfeit and excess." "Drink, aye they cried," with their parched lips; and the fiends gave them hot lead to lap. Minstrels, it appears, are not to be found in that dismal place:
But when they were grown up, the eldest said one day: "Mother, I'm a young woman now, and it's a shame for me to be here doing nothing to help you or myself. Bake me a bannock and cut me a callop, till I go away to push my fortune." The mother baked her a whole bannock, and asked her if she would have half of it with her blessing or the whole of it without.
Bake me a bannock," said she, "and cut me a callop, till I go away to push my fortune." The mother did this, and asked her would she have half the bannock with her blessing or the whole bannock without. She said the whole bannock without, and she set off. Then she said: "If I am not back here in a year and a day, you may be sure that I am doing well and making my fortune," and then she went away.
The ozone and the exercise and Paddy's legato stride all tended to key up my spirits, and I went along humming: "Bake me a bannock, And cut me a callop, For I've stole me a grey mare And I'm off at a gallop!" It wasn't until I saw Paddy's ear prick up like a rabbit's that I noticed the gun-boat on the trail ahead.
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