The rattling boy from Dublin : An Irish comic song /
McGonagall, William.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
ca. 1900]
In two columns with a coat of arms above the title.
In verse.
At the top of the sheet in McGonagall's hand - 'Sir Wm. Topaz McGonagall. Poet'.
Printed beneath the title is an acknowledgement for receipt of poems from McGonagall, from Francis Knollys on behalf of the Prince of Wales. The letter is dated 14th December 1899.
First lines read: I'M a rattling boy from Dublin town, / I courted a girl called Biddy Brown, / Her eyes they were as black as sloes, / She had black hair and an aquiline nose.
English poetry