Note 136 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING.
Reading edition
The above passage is quoted by Mr. T. Crofton Croker in a note on the following lines in "A Kerry Pastoral," a poem published in Concanen's Miscellanies, 1724, and reprinted by the Percy Society:
"Dingle and Derry sooner shall unite, Shannon and Cashan both be drain'd outright; And Kerry men forsake their cards and dice, Dogs be pursued by Hares, and Cats by Mice, Water begin to burn, and fire to wet, Before I shall my college friends forget."
The favorite game of the Kerry men is said to have been "One-and-thirty."