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Limerick [The Great Unsaid]

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A lass from the Isle of Nantucket

 

played croquet with a wet sticky wicket;

 

but found it a bore,

 

when she couldn’t score,

 

so flounced off whilst proclaiming: “Oh go away, in short sharp jerky movements”!

 

Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,

Dé Sathairn, an t-ochtú lá déag de mhí Iúil,

2026, an bhliain dhá mhíle is fiche a sé.

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Sun 19th Jul 2026 08:29

As I understand it, the expression: a "sticky wicket", when applied to the game of croquet, refers to the size of the hoop....or something!😏

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