Little Dog Lost by Steve Boreman for March 19, 2023

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Happy St Patrick!!

Tip of the hat to Mr Boreman for knowing that the wee people were solitary, wore red, and fixed shoes. None the less, a leprechaun can be about mischief, so watch yeself.

Nice to see the color on today’s strip!

“The Emerald Isle” was Sir Arthur Sullivan’s last work. He died while composing it, and Edward German had to complete the score. The libretto is by Basil Hood.

No 4. SONG—PROFESSOR BUNN, WITH CHORUS.

[Arthur Sullivan]BUNN

If you wish to appear as an Irish type

(Presuming, that is, you are not one),

You’ll stick the stem of a stumpy pipe

In your hat-band, if you’ve got one.

Then no doubt you’re aware

You must colour your hair

An impossible shade of red;

While a cudgel you’ll twist

With a turn of your wrist,

Being careful to duck your head—

Or your own shille-

lagh unhappily may

Accidentally knock you down

With a fearful crack

On the comical back

Of your typical Irish crown!

If you manage instead

Of the back of your head

To belabour the floor like that—

And shout “Whirroo,”

Bedad, you’ll do!

You’re the popular type of Pat!CHORUS

Or your own shillelagh, etc.

BUNN

For the innocent joys of a ball or wake

You probably foster a passion,

For all such things I can undertake.

To teach the latest fashion.

First you kiss a colleen,

Then imbibe some potheen,

Then your coat on the floor you’ll trail,

And invite the best man

In the room if he can

To tread on its tattered tail—

With a big shille-

lagh some truculent neigh-

bour will probably knock you down

With a frightful crack

On the comical back

Of your typical Irish crown!

At a ball or a wake

It’s yourself that’ll take

Little notice of that at all!

It’s used you’ll get

To the strict etiquette

Of a typical Irish ball!CHORUS

With a big shillelagh, etc.

DANCE.

Disney versions.