Looking Back: An Ardnacrusha 'Rabbit'

Nothing to do with Kilcullen, but a good story ...

The Germans and the Irishmen working on the Shannon Scheme do not fraternise to any great extent, but a story is told of two who did.

The German always had rabbit pie for lunch, and every day he shared this dainty with an Irish workman. "By the way," said the Irishman one lunch hour, "where do you get your rabbits? I never see any around here."

"Ach!" replied the German, "I shoot dem. Every night dey make noise outside house and I shoot."

"But rabbits do not make a noise," said the Irishman.

"Doch, doch," was the reply, "dey go 'meow, meow'."

— "Quidnunc" in The Irish Times 1929.

Credit to Dave Byrne for trawling through the old newspaper archives.

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