The Longford Ark
http://www.donedeal.ie/windows-for-sale/boat/5856940
This is a real advertisement from Donedeal… inspired the doggerel verse below. Only in Longford!!!
It rains so much in Longford,
It was as if another Flood was to be…
But one brave soul inspired by Noah
Stated prepared for the flood he would be…
And some looked on in wonder…
More thought he was having a Lark…
Yet the Miracle floated on Water…
That’s known as… The Longford Ark!!!
He didn’t have to gather the animals,
They came to him instead,
Not the big and the graceful
But the insects, and bugs from the bed…
A pair of woodlice set up home in the timbers
A pair of beetles in the planks
And the bumblebees lived in the top level
All the others nicknamed them “The Yanks”.
There was a housefly and his companion
Settled on the upright poles real snug
And on the underside of the top level,
Lived a pair of snails and a lone slug.
The slug, she was to fast for the fellas,
She left them behind in a trail of slime…
And should the flood come they will be drowned,
For the crime of taking their time.
The rain for the summer abated,
It seems the risk of the flood this year is not to real…
So Noah is taking his chances…
Has put the Ark up for sale on DoneDeal
For five hundred Euros you can own it…
Your very own Ark – a two story raft…
With a caravan on the lower deck for a cabin…
If you don’t mind sailing around looking a bit daft!!!