LESTRYGONIANS

"Do ptake some ptarmigan. Wouldn't mind being a waiter in a swell hotel. Tips, evening dress, halfnaked ladies. May I tempt you to a little more filleted lemon sole, miss Dubedat? Yes, do bedad. And she did bedad." (U8.886)

Singer Marie Dubedat, known as 'Ireland's Nightingale', in a photo from 1897. Courtesy of
Digital Museums Canada.


Thank You Áine Ninuallain for bringing it to my attention